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Putting the legal discussion to one side, interestingly the donor signed a UTF-8 message in one of his transactions. It reads: "Qubes address? GrapheneOS address?". Maybe implying he wants to give similar amounts to those two projects as well?

Source: https://etherscan.io/tx/0xca5bb04204f446f73a510ea02b2bd7c01e...

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Do these products get written faster with more money? More people? It seems what they need is users.

Marketing would help to drive users, yes?

I agree. Although $300,000 is a drop in the bucket for paid advertising. Yet here we are talking about these things - Qubes, whatever this is... Then again what is the CTA? So puzzling.

Of course. It's the difference between a hobby project that you spend your spare time on, and a full time job.

Giving money for the project must be someone trying to kill it off

Does bacteria grow with more sugar?

Not necessarily. Give a bacterial culture too high a concentration of sugar and the bacteria may even die from the resulting hypertonic osmotic pressure.

Interestingly enough the same can happen when you do a cash infusion with too much money.

Money is a good motivator to convince others join forces.

I don't know about faster but they all sure could use money to hire better UX designers and QA testing pipeline and do UAT/marketing.

But if their leadership just want to make another piece of software by niche enthusiasts for other niche enthusiasts of some topic then that money is wasted on them.

A good example of where such money has become useful is Signal. Fulltime devs close more issues.

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