The importance of donating to open source projects

Posted by Jeff91 on Sep 21, 2011 12:50 AM EDT
Techrepublic; By Jack Wallen
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Those of us who enjoy open source software often forget that the vast majority of open source developers do this on their own time and their own dime. For some that’s not a problem … a precious few some. For many these projects are headed up by younger developers, students, and people in less fortunate situations (for whatever reason). So every five dollar donation can go a long way to keeping a project running.

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