There were some posts over the holiday season asking for projects to donate to, and for those who have the means to comfortably do so, this is an important gift to consider.

If there's only a limited amount each of us is able to give, I assume there's no point giving it all to, for one example, The Linux Foundation, because a small personal donation is trivial next to the ~$15,000,000 USD they receive from sponsors dependent on them[1]. I understand that funding sources can be a major and profound source of bias[2] and ideally we would be, for example, helping to make Firefox independent of Google, but until we have more collective power, it's not worth letting smaller important projects struggle instead.

So, which important projects should we leave to the sponsors, and which really need our support?

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[–] Orbituary@lemmy.world 7 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Why do people ask questions like this? Isn't, "Which worthwhile FOSS projects are underfunded?" a better way to say it?

It's just so kludgy.

[–] comfy@lemmy.ml 17 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

That's a different question.

[–] Apathy@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

What makes it a different question, I’m ignorant and ask that you explain

[–] Daeraxa@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 hours ago

Not OP but I would say because it is a smaller list where if you want to donate and make a big difference to the project then you know it is good to give money to pretty much anyone other than the over funded ones.