> The Rust Foundation is a 501(c)(6) and not a 501(c)(3). The Rust Foundation would do better for the community if they were a 501(c)(3) and more transparent about finances. Follow this example for the greater good.

This was exactly my issue with the Rust Foundation back in 2021 when it was formed, 501(c)(6) are for trade organisations. To this day, individuals still CANNOT donate to the Rust Foundation which means it is not community led.

> Note: At this time, the Rust Foundation [still] does not offer individual memberships.

https://rustfoundation.org/get-involved/#donations

The main issue of the Rust Foundation is that makes it easy for companies to buy influence in the project by buying a board seat as a benefit.

I agree that the Rust Foundation should change their governance structure to a 501(c)(3) instead of a 501(c)(6).

> To this day, individuals still CANNOT donate to the Rust Foundation which means it is not community led.

The very same page you link contradicts this claim:

> The Rust Foundation gratefully accepts donations from individuals and non-member organizations alike!

The difference is that the Rust Foundation accepts individual donations but does not (currently) accept individual memberships.

This link didn't help at all.

Took me a second to understand what this is with the submitted link, and installed it in seconds.

dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31330281

> Whose business operates without email?

OpenSea [0]

[0] https://opensea.io/

Does it? I see email subscription at https://opensea.io/about

Can you explain a bit more?

It's a mailing list? You aren't forced to use and it isn't required to use the service.

I also don't see 'mailing list' in your list of complaints.

Erm. Well, no. But having an externally-facing mailing list doesn't suggest a lack of internal email. Unless there's something I'm missing?

I think you should add flutter and dart to this list. I don't see anyone using it or any jobs in it at all, sooner or later it will die.

Flutter got a lot of traction in the last couple years.

Although that’s not a requisite for Google not kill it, I don’t see it happening unless some VP wakes up on the wrong side of bed some day or the key people leave to start a woodworking YouTube channel.

Like everything :) I think the list contains only projects that are dead or for which Google gave an official termination date.

My heart sank when I saw this, is it that do we feel the need to keep raising money from power hungry venture capitalists?

No one. No one at all.

Qt: "Let's place ADS in your car! fridge, washing machine! your dog's collar and anything that is using Qt!"

"Why glance for the time on your watch when you can get an Qt enabled AD instead?"

Nobody asked for this.

>> Nobody asked for this.

When people debate Qt vs GTK there are some sound reasons to go either way. There are also some crappy non-technical or even philosophical reasons to go either way. This seems like an argument (against Qt) of the later kind.

Is it wrong for the WMF to accept alternatives?

So the WMF accepting payments with Solana, Stellar, etc means they are destructive to the environment?

I assume when Molly mentions 'Cryptocurrencies' she means ALL.