Ask HN: Do companies donate to open source projects?

[DivisibleByZero]

Lots of companies contribute patches or release open source code of their own, but is anyone giving them money? Do any companies have policies of donating to open source projects used in production code?

[debacle]

I know mine has. We weren't a big shop, but we donated to the OSS software companies that created the software we used. Each month, we took ~200 dollars and gave it to one of a long list of OSS companies, some of which include:

WordPress Foundation Bamboo Invoice Apache Foundation ~half a dozen really clutch guys who developed obscure but awesome plugins LibreOffice Flowplayer

Just to name a few.

[corysama]

A lot of the progress in LuaJIT has been sponsored. http://luajit.org/sponsors.html

[noonespecial]

Mine certainly has. We try to do at least a little something to the projects our business uses most. Tor, openvpn, openwrt etc in our case.