That's true, but there's so much open source around and so many critical projects are developed on a shoestring or by time-pressed volunteers. We learned the c

That's true, but there's so much open source around and so many critical projects are developed on a shoestring or by time-pressed volunteers. We learned the consequences that hard way with OpenSSL (and at least partially mitigated them since). An excessive donation could pay for some needed but more workmanlike development, like better open source drivers (or hardware reverse-engineering to create them).