UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME FOR FOSS DEVS

Well I've only got 10min to put this one into text, so this will 
just be a vague outline of an idea.

I'm interested in the concept of a Universal Basic Income (UBI), but 
one problem is that a lot of people get up to no good when you give 
them money for nothing, because they're not smart or educated enough 
to figure out something productive to do. On the other hand there 
are skilled programmers (etc.) who work on open-source project but 
have limited time due to needing an income from other work.

Few people donate to projects, and as the whole point of Open-Source 
is that projects can integrate work from other people, donated money 
can easily be unfairly concentrated with more visible projects. This 
is especially the case if most of the funding for free open-source 
software comes from business donations (which I guess might be the 
case, but 10min means no time for research), where they are looking 
for specific solutions and can easily miss the bigger picture.

So my proposal is a not-for-profit international organisation that 
(1min!) awards a standard rate to programmers working on qualifying 
FOSS projects (qualifying based solely not on number of users, but 
activity of development and numbers of derivative or integrating 
projects). The aim is to expand the diversification of FOSS 
available and reduce the influence of commercial sources of 
Open-Source software (eg. Red Hat) by putting non-commercial 
programmers on an more equal footing.

Businesses and individuals would be encouraged to donate to this 
organisation rather than to specific projects.

16min, so way out of time now, build on that idea if you can. 
Probably not the first time it's been thought of anyway...

 - The Free Thinker, 2020.

PS. Before uploading this (four days later) I realised that this 
 organisation wouldn't be entirely dissimilar to the Free Software 
 Foundation. However to be universal, there shouldn't be any 
 influence over the design of the software itself. The FSF's GNU 
 project encourages its own little universe of like-minded software 
 development, whereas I'd like to support diversification of 
 Open-Source software. Any software, stupid an idea as it may be, 
 should be judged solely by having a certain minimum number of users. 
 Active developers of qualifying software should then all be funded 
 equally from the single pool of donated money.