I would definitely consider donating to FOSS projects (& I have actually donated in the past), but not on the basis of my own code quality. What if I didn’t know my code was bad? Should I just buy enough credits for every single line in the project? Who would pay, me or my employer?
I see supposedly smart people missing the point and focusing on the joke about bad code instead.
“For every ten thousand lines of mind-bendingly bad code produced, we hope to subsidize a thousand lines of quality open source code.”
Does that mean for every $10k you get from code offsets only $1k goes towards open source?
Please tell me that is not so, otherwise you are basically clearing peoples bad code guilt in exchanges for your own personal profit!
“It is, quite literally, the least you could do.”
No, lierally the least I could do is nothing. Which seems about right.
This is another hideous project by Jeff Atwood. Trying to make more money cause he does not want to find a real job. Jeff stop sitting on your a** and find a job and stop begging for money.
Also except that memes are absolutely pointless and very rarely funny. But back onto topic; as a programmer, knowing that I sometimes write bad code is simply frustrating, so I can express sympathy here. Thanks for taking the time to write this up.