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Ask HN: How to best donate money to opensource/linux?

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Re: Ask HN: How to best donate money to opensource/linux?

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Consider seeing if the particular pieces of software you use have their own donation system, then donate there. A donation to a smaller project could have a very large impact on its future.

The Linux Foundation is carried by billion-dollar companies and that's also the interests it serves, from what Icm hearing. I wouldn't worry about its survival.

Re: Ask HN: How to best donate money to opensource/linux?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

How much do FSF employees do these days? I was under the impression that most of the pronto FSF projects (GCC, gnome) are worked on mostly by outsiders (redhat and others)

One of the more important roles of the FSF is to provide the technical and legal infrastructure for the GNU project, and all programs that live under it. They are not focused on directly employing programmers.

They also provide the FSF "Respects Your Freedom" certification to hardware that meets their rigid standards.

This year they added a handful of new products. I feel like they're doing some truly good work for us all.

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