Comments on: Tipping as a replacement for micropayments http://brianwill.net/blog/2007/05/20/tipping-as-a-replacement-for-micropayments/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:37:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Goonmunster http://brianwill.net/blog/2007/05/20/tipping-as-a-replacement-for-micropayments/comment-page-1/#comment-635 Goonmunster Sun, 04 May 2008 23:58:15 +0000 http://brianwill.net/blog/2007/05/20/tipping-as-a-replacement-for-micropayments/#comment-635 Forget about this tracking nonsense, just give them the money, call it what u will, contribution, donation, payment, whatever. The point is that the PERSON /PPL WHO DID THE WORK get paid, cn afford to eat, continue to provide the service / product and perhaps live a good life. Certainly not the case with many contributors to OpenSource/GNU, while gigantic companies, never mind their shareholders, rake in millions and billions from their efforts. Or for that mater, many not-so-popular music artist prior to or since napster or itunes. Forget about this tracking nonsense, just give them the money, call it what u will, contribution, donation, payment, whatever. The point is that the PERSON /PPL WHO DID THE WORK get paid, cn afford to eat, continue to provide the service / product and perhaps live a good life. Certainly not the case with many contributors to OpenSource/GNU, while gigantic companies, never mind their shareholders, rake in millions and billions from their efforts. Or for that mater, many not-so-popular music artist prior to or since napster or itunes.

]]> By: Reinier Zwitserloot http://brianwill.net/blog/2007/05/20/tipping-as-a-replacement-for-micropayments/comment-page-1/#comment-634 Reinier Zwitserloot Sat, 02 Jun 2007 16:39:16 +0000 http://brianwill.net/blog/2007/05/20/tipping-as-a-replacement-for-micropayments/#comment-634 Well put, Brian. Our current intention is to allow people to make their tipping history public, by placing a widget on their blog listing recent tips they've made. The idea of a 'most generous tipper of the week' top chart sounds a bit tacky to me as well. I won't promise that we'll never ever go there, but I'd like to avoid it, and we certainly aren't planning to launch with one of those. -Reinier, founder, tipit.to. Well put, Brian.

Our current intention is to allow people to make their tipping history public, by placing a widget on their blog listing recent tips they’ve made.

The idea of a ‘most generous tipper of the week’ top chart sounds a bit tacky to me as well. I won’t promise that we’ll never ever go there, but I’d like to avoid it, and we certainly aren’t planning to launch with one of those.

-Reinier, founder, tipit.to.

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