Harish Palaniappan's

"I’m setting up an accessibility research project. I need your support to buy me time to raise the money for the project. You’d be funding me, not the project. You can show support by donating – or just by posting one of my clever ad banners on your site",

so goes the message on joeclark.org requesting or technically begging money from people who are using the web.

Questions like why somebody is using the web, and why should they pay him money, dont seem to bother joe (that clearly is the likes of a beggar). At his webpage he states clearly 'if you want to, you donate, or else don't', and joe even goes further setting pre-conditions to probable donors, like stating 'I won't report to you what i am doing, i am not liable to telling you anything about what i use the money for, you only donate based on trust, you are donating to me and not to the project'...and more like that. What the heck you may think!

Technically joe is one of those idiots on the internet who think internet users can throw their money on them and just walk away.. and people like joe go a step further and just DEMAND users in that.

In what probably started as requesting donations from users, to pay up for maintaining a free software or service online, .. is gradually over-grown into a habit many people have (they call themselves geeks).

I have made a more detailed post here, on this slow poison that most geeks have taken as a habit and willingly drink unmindful of the decrease in value of money online its creating. This will kill open-source itself, and more low quality software will be made in the community.