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> If software saves me time, I drop a donation that is in proportion to the value it has to me. Love this idea. Can you give some example amounts? How much hav

> If software saves me time, I drop a donation that is in proportion to the value it has to me. Love this idea. Can you give some example amounts? How much have you donated to OpenSSL? NTP? Postfix? The bulk of OSS is invisible "plumbing" that provides the critical infrastructure for the software we actually use on a day to day basis (proprietary and OSS). I'm happy to hear that you contribute to some projects and that's great, but you haven't exactly solved the tragedy of the commons.

phone8675309 6y ago
>Love this idea. Can you give some example amounts? How much have you donated to OpenSSL? NTP? Postfix? Sure! For regular one-time donations: - Debian => $500 once a year (typically in the summer) - Free Software Foundation => $500 once a year (typically around the new year) - MetaARPA membership on the SDF => $36 once a year (in August) For regular ongoing donations: - $60/half year to the OpenBSD Foundation for OpenBSD (once for each release - I used to buy each CD set but they don't sell them anymore) - $20/month to the OpenBSD Foundation to support OpenSSH, LibreSSL, and OpenNTPd - $5/month to a niche forum that I post to on occasion - $5/month to a podcast that I listen to - $6/month to a BandCamp artist that I listen to For other projects, I'll keep an eye on their calls for donation for specific things and support them one-off as I can. GnuCash says I've donated about $5000 over the last ten years or so doing that.