The implication of a DAO and Crypto involvement has stirred attention in the comments. I have 2¢ on the matter. First, I don't think we've seen many examples like this in open-source communities. For that reason alone, regardless of the idea's merit, I welcome it; if it is to fail, let us see it, that we may have a case study in the future. Worst case, there is wide support for a fork, and I don't see that becoming any more unreasonable over the next decade. Secondly, just as a brain-storming idea, what if we had like the blockchain and stuff but the rewards weren't pure value (ie. contextual value, one man's treasure; titles, hats, cosmetics, merch vs purchasing power and/or influence)?
I hold zero crypto, but by reading of the DAO is that it is one of the ways mentioned of trying to benefit the community or perhaps it will be used for community governance (elsewhere in the post it mentions hiring maintainers, and also creating bounties to fund development), not a way of creating some crypto coin to sell.
Even if it was a way to sell crypto coins and fund development (presumably while also giving backers some visibility and say on the project’s governance), how is that worse than making part of the project closed source and paid for?
