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

#1
My company has a match program and I want to donate money to a good opensource cause and/or Linux itself.

It seems like the linux foundation would be a good cause, but my company program does not have a profile for that 503c and I cannot find details on their website on how to donate.

Anyone has any tips and/or can help me?

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

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The right name for "linux" is GNU/Linux. Initially Linux was just a kernel, with lots of free software from FSF. You can donate to FSF at https://www.fsf.org/about/ways-to-donate/

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)

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

#8

The right name for "linux" is GNU/Linux. Initially Linux was just a kernel, with lots of free software from FSF. You can donate to FSF at https://www.fsf.org/about/ways-to-donate/

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.

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.

FWIW, the lead developer of Trisquel is employed by the FSF, though working on Trisquel isn't part of his job duties.
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