[nospecinterests]

I know they are doing this as a community service... because, I assume they feel it is their honor and duty to do so... but why the hell do these guys NOT have at least a donate link/button on their site!!!!! This is crazy. I know they are going to get awesome press which would have normally cost thousands but it never hurts to throw up a link and see how much your appreciated.

[mhurron]

> I assume they feel it is their honor and duty to do so

Free advertising.

Why should a commercial entity have a donate button? Why would I donate to a business?

[traevesty]

You'd donate to a business for the same reason you'd donate to an individual: to give resources to a cause that you support and to incentivize a direction of work.

You might be surprised to learn that the business world already has tons of donation buttons and trust networks. For accounting reasons they're often called contracts.

[dan1234]

Does anyone have any conversion stats for those donate buttons?

I don't think many people actually use them, especially if the traffic is mainly curious readers sent there by mainstream press.

[bitJericho]

I've had sites with a fair amount of traffic, never received a donation, not ever, not even once. Much more effective to sell a sticker than to place a donate button. A friend of mine recently avoided my advice and replaced his twitter feed with a donate button, he said it was a horribly stupid mistake.

[aptwebapps]

Well, if word gets out they might get a decent amount of traffic from individuals who are considerably more vested than curious readers.

[stronglikedan]

Maybe the legal/tax implications of a for-profit entity accepting donations outweigh the benefits? I really don't know; I'm just brainstorming possibilities.