Could a DAO Model Be the Key to Rescuing Open Source Funding?

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So now the maintainer must follow the order of the crow. What if the proposals are not in the maintainer vision or just bad? Can s/he fork the project? Is the DAO going to sue?

It looks like an idea for one time funding. That pays the bills the first years luckily. The second year the 90% of the users will be already in the DAO. Is everyone going to pay again? Are the new 10% going to pay more to compensate the small number? Are the new shares proportional to the money?

You have some good points. It won't be easy. However, most DAO's the creators of the DAO usually hold the most tokens/voting rights. The DAO itself can be deployed in several different structures which will take a few first movers to lay the framework for what works well. Regarding payments it could be pay to vote or other models which I have seen out in the wild in Web3.

I can envision a proposal mechanism which pulls funds from the DAO pool to fund development for a specific feature.

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