ankitmundada

Probably you would have contributed more had you received something in return. It needn't be money. Could be even something else.

Humans need a reward to continue doing an action. No reward, no action.

I smell blockchains here...

Indeed, but most of these projects are really big & popular projects that the organization depends upon. New/Upcoming projects will still be left out due to this.

But we should also note that individual donations can make a huge difference too, if a propoer system is created around it.

Yes, companies probably need to be donating more, but I also think individual donors can also do their bit.

Probably they're. But majority of the projects are not. Most of them are not even asking for it. Check this - https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ckaestne/pdf/icse20-donations.pdf

Just 0.2% npm packages asked for donations in 2019.

Like what?

It seems that donation based model is not sustainable for OSS. Even the latest report of Open Collective (https://blog.opencollective.com/12m-for-open-source/) suggests that an OSS projects are receiving just ~4k USD per project in a year on an average. This is below the min-wage of many countires if you look at it at a contributor level.

Isn't there any alternative possible? This seems like a huge opportunity if solved correctly.