"Currently there are perfectly good projects that have been abandoned by their developers despite being used by large corporations. Subsequently the projects fall out of use. This is unnecessary waste that would often be prevented by making it easy for companies to pay the developers directly. I think it's important to solve this so that the sustainability of open source projects is improved."
Wouldn't micropledge.com be a good way to support abandonware and even ongoing projects that need some assistance?
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ARMs are cheap and can emulate the 6502 easily an still run rings around it for speed.
"Currently there are perfectly good projects that have been abandoned by their developers despite being used by large corporations. Subsequently the projects fall out of use. This is unnecessary waste that would often be prevented by making it easy for companies to pay the developers directly. I think it's important to solve this so that the sustainability of open source projects is improved." Wouldn't micropledge.com be a good way to support abandonware and even ongoing projects that need some assistance?