David_Gerard comments on Money: The Unit of Caring - Less Wrong

95 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 31 March 2009 12:35PM

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Comment author: jsalvatier 22 November 2010 04:41:29PM 4 points [-]

I agree completely.

Possibly in other software projects where the donors consider it a hobby.

Comment author: David_Gerard 22 November 2010 05:11:11PM 1 point [-]

Oh, excellent example. Yes, that's what Wikipedia is analogous to: software projects are charities that need applied expertise more than they need money. A project can run on very little money indeed if it has sufficient dev brilliance. (Though a company that pays said brilliant devs to work on the project for a living is nice.)