Ask HN: Do companies donate to open source projects?

5 points by DivisibleByZero 13 years ago | 3 comments

Lots of companies contribute patches or release open source code of their own, but is anyone giving them money? Do any companies have policies of donating to open source projects used in production code?

debacle 13 years ago |

I know mine has. We weren't a big shop, but we donated to the OSS software companies that created the software we used. Each month, we took ~200 dollars and gave it to one of a long list of OSS companies, some of which include:

WordPress Foundation Bamboo Invoice Apache Foundation ~half a dozen really clutch guys who developed obscure but awesome plugins LibreOffice Flowplayer

Just to name a few.

corysama 13 years ago |

A lot of the progress in LuaJIT has been sponsored. http://luajit.org/sponsors.html

noonespecial 13 years ago |

Mine certainly has. We try to do at least a little something to the projects our business uses most. Tor, openvpn, openwrt etc in our case.