Nuttso You wrote, cit: "If all of you who disagree with me here would know the project a lil better, you wouldn't disagree."
I am sorry but I do not agree with you not because I know little about the project but because your suggestions are really bad.
I do not want to offend you in any way but did you think about your own suggestions in depth?
For instance I can't believe that you suggest that people who wouldn't' donate shouldn't be able to seamlessly update system and that they would have to compile it themselves.
And I can't process it when I put it together with your own writing: "Out of these 80k users. Maybe only 20k flashed the os on their own."
I wonder how this would work.
Hypothetical: Let's say I am private person and do not like sending my private information online. Therefore I send you donation per bitcoin network. I would buy bitcoin from friend with cash. Now I would want to update the system. How would update server identify that my device is eligible for an update. The server and my device must now somehow recognize that I am not cheap and that I really donated. Shall I provide transaction ID to be able to update? I would probably have to identify like this before every update, or maybe my device would be tagged that I paid (this much money) and I would be provided with (put number) updates? Let's say I have two phones with GOS, shall I donate twice? That would be too much fun to handle when there would be some crucial security update, I would donate monthly but I couldn't donate for some reason... Maybe I am completely out here, could you please explain how exactly could this particular suggestion of yours work?
You wrote: "I'm 100% sure that if my approach would be implemented a lot more people would donate. Especially something so simple as paysafecard pins"
If you put a gun to anyone's head they would also donate, but that wouldn't make it good. Yes, it would work, but would you want it this way?
It is not easy to find the right balance but to think of your users as of enemies or cheaps who wouldn't contribute if they are not forced is in my opinion not the best approach.