This is amazing news. Glad to see companies that benefit so much from free software helping to pay it forward. Update, Feb. 5, 2015, 8:10 p.m.: After this arti

This is amazing news. Glad to see companies that benefit so much from free software helping to pay it forward. Update, Feb. 5, 2015, 8:10 p.m.: After this article appeared, Werner Koch informed us that last week he was awarded a one-time grant of $60,000 from Linux Foundation's Core Infrastructure Initiative. Werner told us he only received permission to disclose it after our article published. Meanwhile, since our story was posted, donations flooded Werner's website donation page and he reached his funding goal of $137,000. In addition, Facebook and the online payment processor Stripe each pledged to donate $50,000 a year to Koch’s project.