Ask HN: What OSS projects would you sponsor?

4 points by munawwar 5y ago ↗ HN

Before just throwing a random list of projects here, let's say your budget is a $100 / mo (just a random round figure), what OSS projects would you now sponsor? That'd make you think about what you really want to see in the tech world.

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munawwar 5y ago ↗

My list begins with Firefox, Ubuntu & linux. I want to see OS, desktops and browsers not being solely controlled by for-profit corps. In the same line, mobile OSes don't have a good alternative. Any suggestions?

stephenr 5y ago ↗

I would (and actually do) sponsor small projects I find useful for my business. Derick Rethans’ Xdebug, Ondrej Sury’s backport Debian repos, etc.

I’ve also made one off donations to get a higher priority fix for a bug/issue.