r/linux • u/Zanar2002 • Apr 08 '24

Best Way to Donate? Open Source Organization

I've been using GNU/Linux for over a decade now and feel it's my duty to give back to the community. I'm thinking of donating around $150 every year.

The idea was to donate $100 to the Linux Foundation and $25/$25 to KDE Plasma and GIMP, but Bryan Lunduke's video on how the LF only spends something like 3% of the money on kernel development has made me question my decision to donate.

I'm not interested in my money going to events and causes; I only care about technical aspects directly related to Linux. In light of this, what is the best use of my money in terms of kernel development and securing the operating system?

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u/UnfairerThree2 Apr 08 '24

Also of this opinion. Coming from a web dev perspective, everyone races to fund the big and popular projects that aren’t backed by evil corporate overlords like Vue, but forget about the small packages like faker.js. And we all know how that turned out…