I think we should ask companies with billions lying around to write checks to some kid that did something several years ago because they got a patch into mainline of bitcoin. In fact, they should create an enormous incentive to get in the club of people that can claim some of those checks, and create a protectorate around any patches making it into production code in the "official" repository lest the corporate donatioms are further diluted to outsider developers. We really need a group of people to claim ownership of the "official" codebase that have so much donated money they can hire PR firms and strategists to market their "contributions to the open source community" to generate more interest in donating to their "selfless activities." This way we won't be flapping in the wind, like today, rudderless and without a central standardizing organization to tell us the proper direction for bitcoin. I really don't understand Saylor's gripe with Kathy.