
Okay, so this is entirely new to me. Sparrow
is was an email client for Mac OS X and iOS (
and Windows), which brought a decent Gmail experience to these platforms - as opposed to Apple's own not-so-good Gmail support and Google's Gmail iOS application which, well, is just a webpage. Google
has now acquired Sparrow, and basically all hell has broken loose, to the point of
Rian van der Merwe writing that 'we' lost "faith in a philosophy that we thought was a sustainable way to ensure a healthy future for independent software development, where most innovation happens".
Member since:
2006-07-30
Examples of this happening in the past. It takes a lot of effort, although something like kickstarter may be useful.
In the past I've seen stats from open source projects which mentioned that less than 1% of users donate to the project. That's not a lot.