As you may or may not be aware, a relatively recent development in my life has been the decision to start paying (in earnest) for the open-source soft

Giving to Freely Given Software - The How

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2022-01-13 23:00:06

As you may or may not be aware, a relatively recent development in my life has been the decision to start paying (in earnest) for the open-source software that I use. I've already explained my thoughts on why to sponsor open-source. I'm now going to explain, in detail, how I go about doing the actual sponsoring. (I'm using the present tense here, as I intend for my sponsorship efforts to be an ongoing endeavor.)

The world of open-source software is vast. I only make use of a tiny sliver of what it has to offer. In order to determine all of my relevant sponsorship candidates, I do the following:

As a result of cataloguing everything, I've got my list of sponsorship candidates. In general, each entry in the list tends to fall in one of the following buckets:

As you can see, my list goes beyond open-source to include other sorts of software. Anything that I'm not obligated to pay for, really. And that's fine by me.