I love that there is a real effort for open source projects to seek distributed funding from the people getting benefit from all the hard work the contributors do. I don't have to buy a license, but I can support the projects I use regularly and it feels like the best of both worlds. I do wonder how sustainable funding will impact the rate of change in the Open Source / Javascript community. If you are actively investing in a project are you less likely to replace it as quickly with "the next thing" or volunteer to improve the tools that you are already using and donating to? It will be interesting to see!