I like to support open source projects. I think it’s vital to the survival of the community, and I think in a very small way it makes it possible for me to provide encouragement and thanks to the people in the trenches doing the heavy lifting each day to benefit the community at large.
There are a lot of different ways to support open source projects. There’s individual contributions (patches), time, money, attention, and probably many other methods. Each of those things is important, but this post is specifically about money.
