[zamadatix]

> Cool, that’s easy. So each company should donate 200 hours of work to open source projects.

The article proposes that per person not per company.

> Encouraging more volunteer time is better than trying to collect and allocate cash. And better improved OSS. I think.

Depends on the size of the company and the number of projects you want to support. A bunch of low level commits across a bunch of projects by 100 companies would leave things off a lot worse (due to the maintenance burden vs improvement amount provided) than a bunch of donations from 100 companies to get a dedicated resource dedicated to each project year round.