What Do Small Open Source Projects Do With Money? Not Much.

Courtesy Digg Linux/Unix upcoming  Wed, 07/30/2008 - 12:54

What would your favorite small open source project do with a sudden influx of money? Imagine you donated $5000 to a project, where would the money go?

Less scrupulous developers might spend the money on Mountain Dew and Twinkies, but more likely the money would just sit, doing nothing.


 

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