Its because Burung Hantu (Marco Wollank) always wanted to use it to make money, whereas we just get what we get from OpenCollective, and none of the team withdraws out of that.
For us it's a labor of love, for the topic at hand, for him it's about the money. His blog post should tell you exactly that.
Yeah, I almost wasn't going to link it because of that, however, it is fairly tame compared to most of the garbage on there.
The info about One Guy Ltd and it's links to his previous company Viral Video Web Ltd was interesting though and the fact he's set up a bullshit "review" website (Erfahrungen) is amusing.