patio11 has written before on why tips or especially "donations" are a bad idea, or at least not the best idea: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10863939 h

patio11 has written before on why tips or especially "donations" are a bad idea, or at least not the best idea: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10863939 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10863939 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=659396 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=659396 businesses have a much greater incentive to ensure continued development of projects than individuals. Personally there's at most a handful of projects I would support with my own money, but my employer's money would be very well spent supporting at least a dozen different OS projects.