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  • eclexictheeclecticdyslexic@mstdn.social
    Sep 14, 2026, 12:13 PM

    @tanepiper I'm not certain DHH raising money shows that there is money for open source, so much as it shows there is money in shows of loyalty, if the people loyal to you are very wealthy. I think the project could be anything. (meme coin, movie, startup, toy product) It would get the same funding, as long as he had the same connections to the same people.

    Truth be told, I think the amount of money he is getting is small, in the context of who is giving and why.

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  • Tane Piper ⁂tanepiper@tane.codes
    Sep 14, 2026, 12:36 PM

    @theeclecticdyslexic I think that's an entirely fair point - NFTs are a really good example of this as well, a few Kickstarters over the years, even someone like Tony Robins - I guess the point is it's loyalty + no critical thinking for the vast majority (there's also a lot of people donating at the $16 layer).

    But someone like the CTO of AWS could have easily paid back in kind to many of the projects that made them profit from others works - instead he chose this, likely knowing the signal.

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