It's nice to have more numerous and better options for donations. However, I cannot stop feeling that the real issue is not really the receiving end but the gi

It's nice to have more numerous and better options for donations. However, I cannot stop feeling that the real issue is not really the receiving end but the giving end. The amounts given to software creators are generally small, little more than pocket money. It's far from something that can sustain, even partially, a developer. What I would love to see, specially in tech companies, is something like a 50$ credit that each employee can see fit to give to any OSS project/developer. For example, given our extensive usage of Postgres, and given how fundamental it has been in our operation, I would love to give them a few bucks and I'm pretty sure I would not be the only one to do the same. Another thing that might be great, is to have some foundations to give to. Then this foundation would identify some core but low visibility projects (like OpenSSL pre-heartbleed for example) and distribute funding to them. This role can also be assumed by the donation platform.