Do you mean this?
https://medium.com/idena/idena-app-translation-bounty-auction-experiment-first-results-co-funding-and-next-steps-7be0978137ea

Yeah, for sure, to have such a HUGE premine and at the same time ask for donations... very strange and wrong behavior.

What free stuff? Nothing is for free.

They mentioned looking for private investors to keep going with the project, I say that they should continue their work because they have "Core team allocation: 17,250,000 DNA" which is ~$1225000 at current price. Isn't this enough?

This project starts to smell fishy.. I hope the devs can came up with some explanations and make some light regarding this matter.