Wow that's uncool. Hey, I saw you spent $1 million on a toy, so you have to donate $8 million to my cause.
Also worth noting, the last thing I read was that Elon Musk had to borrow money to get through the month since he sunk all of his money into his companies and he didn't have enough on hand to spend, so I'm not exactly hopeful that he'd be able to do this. Obviously he could sell some stock or similar to get the money, but I doubt he'd really want to do that.
He's also stating that the name / technology has entered the public domain so he knows that Musk is doing nothing wrong by using it and naming his company with the family name. I've got to give him credit for a creative approach to raise the money but it really feels ugly and backhanded. If it gets funded -- great! I just don't know how I'd feel in Musk's shoes considering it opens him up to future things he should donate to because he is using somebody else's work / tech to piggy back his way to where he is now: success.
The issue is that people in general need to be more thoughtful in general rather than spouting off knee-jerk opinions. That statement that "nobody is going to see it that way" sounds like an appeasement to the mob.
I mean, that same mob were the ones who were shouting very loudly about electric cars getting set on fire.