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The only argument which makes sense at the light of what I said is number 4.

You'll have to say more if you want to try to merge horizons.

The open source community works well despite, and thanks to, no money being involved (at least explicitly). The motivation obviously exists without money, and the results are better because of that.

So, there is no problem to solve, just potential to poison one of the biggest qualities.

The only argument which makes sense at the light of this, is number 4, and that is an interesting problem. Distribution of wealth.

Where I'm coming from is that I want to work on open source software, and I get really down on the hoops I have to jump through to do it--consulting, employment, starvation. I want to add value to society and I want society to value me in a more direct way.

Tips are small so there's no strings attached. That's different than with other uses of money.

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