I also wish companies would just adopt the even simpler solution: just "donate" developer resources to a project that that engineer thinks is cool. If the tech

I also wish companies would just adopt the even simpler solution: just "donate" developer resources to a project that that engineer thinks is cool. If the tech giants would budget N days per month for developers to contribute to projects they like, I think that would a) help morale, and b) help the open source world.