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If you had $5,000 to donate to your favourite open-source projects, which one would they be? (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I would donate to (and have donated to some of) the following:

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

They have a very long history of mismanaging money and wasting it on worthless projects, not to mention multi-million dollar executive salaries while laying off hundreds of workers and many other controversies.

I don't think you will find an organisation of that scale that doesn't have salaries for execs like this, You might not like it but that is an unavoidable reality, you can't run a business based of wishful thinking.

Some projects got dumped but at least they are taking risk and making new projects (which got us Rust, stack overlow survey favorite language from 2016 - 2023).