MostAwesomeDude/bravo — comment on commit 93f7546f04d6d864eee4fa6234885be935be30f8
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By MostAwesomeDude:

@gtaylor: The talk about money started with an observation that many Bukkit authors and modders get paid quite a bit of pocket change for relatively inferior code while Bravo has never earned money, and ended with a wager (which I lost) with my friends that nobody would donate a single dollar to support Bravo.

I never write code in order to get money, except at work, and even then, it's only begrudgingly. I don't like money. I don't like doing things for pay. I certainly didn't bring Bravo into existence to get money. Bravo's purpose was to be one of a series of bright points of light in a sea of relative darkness and cluelessness; it was supposed to help inspire an open-source community to form around a shitty, closed-source game with lots of fanboys and very little rational analysis. I didn't want people to use Bravo so much as learn from Bravo.

It's only when I take a step back and look at the total impact of not just Bravo, but all of the surrounding projects in the ecosystem, that I can feel that it was worthwhile, and now, even with that, it's not doin' it for me. I don't have the time or patience to keep bashing my face against my keyboard while trying to keep up with the latest inanities in the wider Minecraft community.

That all said, there's been a few donations, so Bravo 2.0 will happen. After that, though, it's hiatus time again. People are just not communicating what Bravo should do for them, and I've given up on trying to shove Bravo into people's lives.