[tnli]

I find that those companies that add issues and support requests _ought_ to have the decency to also donate to him.

But, I guess, companies don't have any decency to donate unrequested, so maybe he should put up some sort of notice to request payment for any work they request from him. Oh, wait...

[mcintyre1994]

There's also probably distance between the arm of the company that donates to open source and the developers who are opening issues when they spot a bug. And that distance probably gets longer for companies with the most money to donate too.

[radiator]

This is not exactly so. Those developers who are opening issues belong to a team, that team has access to a budget. If the company has a lot of money, as you say, they themselves have some say over where this budget gets spent.

[ghaff]

And they can use that budget to pay an invoice from an approved vendor. (Beyond something small that can be put on an expense report.)