While this initiative goes against human nature (pay for a good when I’m entitled not to pay, that is “the crazy business man”), nothing prevent OSS devs from adding to their licenses clauses that require a 1% donation of profits into the 10 most used open source projects used by the company. It probably adds considerable friction to users adding the OSS code though.

> Companies invest in the tools that they use to ensure continued development and support.

I'm not a fan of this. If I release an open source library, I am under no obligation to continue development or support it. I'd happily take the donations, but there is absolutely no moral or ethical reason I'd feel compelled to maintain the project.

meh hate all these handouts based solutions, devalues the effort of the developers.

If I do something I'd rather get paid or not at all and I've chosen that, rather than cap out looking for tips.