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I mean wikipedia is entirely run by taxes and they have a budget of hundereds of millions to be filled by donations.
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Wikipedia budget is in seven digits not nine digits.
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Paypal do not operate in Egypt (which I believe - but may be wrong - is a US edict).
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Egypt is supported by billions per year from the US. It wouldn't make much sense to have an edict against a country which the US considers to be friendly.
It's probably rather that Paypal doesn't trust the banks in Egypt.
Money laundering is a big problem.
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That said, we must take into account the potential of the market. For instance, I don't mind giving away an English learning software to Chinese people because I am talking about hundreds of millions of potential users.
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There are also cultural differences between the Chinese market and the US market.
Chinese pay for virtual goods that cost small amounts of money while that business model doesn't seem to work in the US or Europe.
I think that a freemium model would work well for language learning software.
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I also recently read a post by someone somewhere - not on here I don't think - by a guy who has made it his new 'habit' to make sure every month he donates $20 to the various geeks out there who give free help to many people on forums and the like. I'm thinking of following suit in a more organized fashion when I next have a 'goal revaluation' exercise in the summer.
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I don't think that's much helpful. Forcing a monetary incentives into a community makes things worse.
Helping other people is inherently motivating. External rewards can reduce the internal motivation.
Forcing a monetary currency into an interaction that wasn't about money can have bad effects.
If I have had sex with a date I don't increase your chances of having another time sex with the girl by offering to pay her.
In the case of online forums or a lot of open source it's much better to be a good citizen yourself.
If you read a Wikipedia article and notice some error take the time to correct it.
Different human interactions can work on different kind of transactions.
Of course everyone has to do something to feed himself but that doesn't mean that everything we do has to be money motivated.