@j The only reason I'd participate in such an auction is if I could burn the sketch right after receiving it.
The more I've used open source, the more it feels like everything is just a cluster of highschool cliques that argue with one another incessantly and condescendingly instead of actually getting stuff done.
The entire free/open/whatever you want to call it ecosystem feels like it's hold together by Linus Torvalds and a bunch of scotch tape (not even proper Scotch brand tape, no, that's proprietary of course, can't have that. Cheap, knockoff tape).
If scientists discover some form of immortality within the next two decades, the only reasonable thing this community should do is pull all their money together to buy it for Linus. But they won't even be able to do that right.