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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
You're talking about individual patrons, I'm talking about institutional patrons. Publishers are really and example of institutional patrons, except that in addition to providing financial services, they also provide publishing services. If publishing services become simple enough that they can be split into editing/advertising and thus contracted out to specialized services, publishers will become pure institutional patrons.
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I also checked a bit on Wikipedia about patronage and it seemed that even individual patrons have often other goals then to keep things for themselves. And I suppose that the donation system in the US as it works today is an example of individual patronage that works.