The Future of Payments and Open Source Support
TLDR; there are two problems with tip4commit:<p>1. The obvious, that they are collecting funds on behalf of other people's work and then keeping them when the funds go 'unclaimed'<p>2. Even if you do want to claim it, they don't make it easy, and for someone in a complicated tax country (like the author, Austria) there is almost no way he could accept the money without incurring some kind of risk.  So basically when they are keeping money that goes unclaimed it's very problematic because they don't make the money easy to claim in the first place.  Obvious incentives issues.<p>Point 2 is what this article is about.