I'd spend 100M in a month easily. Especially after I've bankrolled GrapheneOS, Ladybird and all my favourite FOSS projects. They also didn't say anything about charity which IMO isn't gifting. Once I feel like I've sufficiently contributed to society I'd buy a 50ft sailboat, pimp the shit out of it with solar and fuck off forever.

With the billion I'd establish a fund that pays out monthly to any projects I deem worthy and funds all food banks in my local area indefinitely.

[–] Jolteon@lemmy.zip 13 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Then maybe graphene OS would be able to get enough people to maintain non-pixel builds.

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 6 points 3 months ago

Especially after I've bankrolled GrapheneOS, Ladybird and all my favourite FOSS projects.

According to the book The Starfish and the Spider, which is about decentralized organization versus centralized organization, the Spanish Empire was able to defeat the previously-undefeatable Apache resistance by giving gifts of horses to some of the Apache leaders. It provided them status, creating a hierarchy, turning the Apache society into the sort of thing that could be destroyed in conventional battle.

Not saying it’s a very tight analogy, but I would be wary of changes in team culture resulting from a project going from volunteer based to well-funded.

Obviously open source projects need resources, such as servers and github accounts and all that, but spirits change when resource flows change, and projects excel or flub on spirit.

[–] Klear@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

No gifting.

[–] AstralPath@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 months ago

Charity isn't gifting.