Again ... you are implying that the value of something is a priori linked to a monetary "value". It is not because people are willing to pay for something that it is worth paying for. Economically speaking more money is transfered into the (hard) drugs industry, than into the production of aspirine. Here 's a clear case of a "philantropic" minority winning the value argument against the man on the street majority.Xerographica wrote: ↑Sun Nov 26, 2017 7:39 pm ...
If phpBB gave people the opportunity to use their donations to help determine the social importance of different ideas it wouldn't solve the free-rider problem. But it would solve the immense problem of development being driven by popularity rather than by value.
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Donations to phpBB ? No problem with that, as long as it's used to pay for costs (e.g.hardware, software, hosting, travel to conventions), but not to decide which idea will be implemented and which won't.