[jmclnx]

I agree with you in this, I donate to a few Open Source Projects, I really cannot afford to donate to one that multi-billon $ companies use for free.

For example, OpenSSH. Used everywhere yet IBM gives a big fat 0 to that project even though OpenSSH is even used in AIX. Even though I love to complain about Microsoft, M/S does donate a decent amount to OpenSSH via OpenBSD, so M/S gets my respect for doing that.

Time companies like IBM steps up and give, if not, we are back to playing with CMOS date/time. Which is how things were when I started programing at a large company decades ago.

[amelius]

There's probably some stupid legal reason behind why they don't donate.

[johnisgood]

I would be interesting in hearing more about this. There are legal reasons for a large company not donating to FOSS?

[johnisgood]

Oops, s/interesting/interested.

[throwaway838112]

Greed.