I like this model, and hope the magazine catches on. Hopefully it will help provide one more step in figuring out how to help compensate people who do FOSS for their efforts.

Vaguely related: A thought I've been having lately is that instead of micro payments being a direct monetary thing, why not team up with ISPs, hosting providers, etc, and have an organization a "points" system similar to loyalty programs. Points can then be used to provide a discounts on hosting and bandwidth, and distributed both individually by people and by projects to contributors. This helps reduce some of the friction in transactions...