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Donations are a voluntary contribution based on "feeling good", and companies especially big publicly funded companies can rarely donate to "feel good". Its hard to justify to financiers why you should pay for open-source updates, if you can get them for free anyway.

It just highlights why donation is a terrible business model for open-source.

Come up with a better support model and people will pay.



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