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by haser_au 3249 days ago
I third this.

An invoice is enormously easier than making a donation. Most large scale organisations give even low level managers an authority limit (up to X amount) where they don't need to engage the full Contracts and Procurement process. If you're asking for less than $1k per annum, you'll find a lot of large scale organisations will happily pay. And the people using these tools are often very supportive of open source, and want to support these projects. It's in their interests; you maintain the library, they get the benefits of having bugs fixed.