Summary of the survey (1½ days later) in a number of other examples of Habrahabra folding

• On January 5, 2012, Jeditobe published the call “ Contribute to ReactOS ”; as noted there in the comments , for ≈35 hours they collected 2191 rubles (and therefore, ≈70 dollars at the exchange rate at that time).
  
• On January 25, 2012, ilya42 published the call “ Pay to authors, not to copywriters, ” where he promoted the system of voluntary donations Flattr. His note received a rating of +110, but only after he removed the Flattr button from it (personifying not abstract arguments about the transition from copyright to micropayments, but a specific call to donate money personally ilya42 ); Before that, the blog post was minus active.
  
• On April 5, 2012, I called to let you know which of Habrakhabr's readers could donate as much as possible to create free fonts. Over the past 1½ days since then, only five people in the comments declared their readiness to donate one or another amount of money; much more (≈ twice more: eleven people) were readers who not only did not promise to donate anything, but also hostilely wrote a blog posting - it didn’t pass to the title page (although it started with such news about the appearance of free fonts with Cyrillic which usually manages to get on the main page of Habrahabr). The total potential of possible donations was $ 266 every two months, while the project would have required 4583⅓ (that is, it didn’t have enough and 6% was enough). The result of the survey should be considered, no doubt, a failure in relation to its goals: it clearly shows that a real fundraising for the creation of free fonts at Habrahabr would have been unsuccessful. (Although a certain step forward is noticeable: the potential donations for creating free fonts more than tripled the actual donations made to ReactOS three months ago by volume.)

To summarize these three cases (two in January and one in April), I propose to readers independently. And not that, after announcing the results of my generalization, I would risk greatly disappointing (and not even strongly offending) all those carriers of rose-colored glasses who naively believe that the creation of free products can occur in Russia not only with the sponsorship of interested wealthy companies, the financing of paid products through right-selling and the Mikhalkov one-percent fee is generally ready to die off the day after tomorrow, and that KickStarter’s refusal to come to Russia in April last year was an underestimation of the readiness of the Russian network community to voluntary donations.

And what is really there. I would have disfavored my soul, if I had not confessed that I myself would rather be disappointed.