[walid]

> Frankly, I'm sick of people jumping on the "open-source" bandwagon and diverting resources from those who truly deserve it

Is there a list of deserving people that gets curated by someone? I think that those who deserve are those that get support because what is being advertised is what people will pay for if they want it.

On the same note as those who truly deserve it I think that there are so many ideas and open source is not about a list of people but about whatever you want or need. Pushing back on new ideas is not necessarily the right thing to do. Vote with your money; support if you like something and walk away if you don't.

[yapcguy]

The problem I see is that if the public donate several times to projects which don't work out, by the time the true domain experts get around to setting up a Kickstarter, the public are already tapped out.