https://github.com/gratifi/grati.fi
What do you think about the viability of such a system? Could Linux Mint adopt it?
On GNU/Linux distributions
The gratifi -software will come bundled in any GNU/Linux distribution.
Each piece of software can can be provided with a bitcoin-address (for example in the .conf -file), if they want to get their fair share of each donation.
The donation can be initiated manually, regularly or by the package-manager when installing/upgrading. It will check the balance. If balance is 0, it will suggest loading some money and spend them the next time.
When the donation is initiated, the software checks for each donation-address and shares the amount equally between the addresses. This might mean hundreds of recipents.
Each recipent will get lots and lots of very small donations, which will gradually sum up to a meaningful amount.
The software developers can ship different receiving addresses with different distros, for extra data.