Then just donate to the projects that you use maybe? Certainly there are some OSS projects that don't need our help (Chromium, for example), but there are lots that do:
- Emacs packages like Consult, Denote, Helm, Magit, and many others
- Anki
- Recoll
- FSF
- Virtually all community driven linux distros
If you want to make the argument that "I don't know if I can trust the maintainer to actually put my hard earn money to good use in improving the project", then I would say "just be ethical; the laborer deserves his wages".
Not so hot take: FOSS should be treated as shareware was in the 80s and 90s.
- Emacs packages like Consult, Denote, Helm, Magit, and many others
- Anki
- Recoll
- FSF
- Virtually all community driven linux distros
If you want to make the argument that "I don't know if I can trust the maintainer to actually put my hard earn money to good use in improving the project", then I would say "just be ethical; the laborer deserves his wages".
Not so hot take: FOSS should be treated as shareware was in the 80s and 90s.