Let’s say

Let’s say you’ve got an engineer or other employee who costs you $150,000 a year in salary & benefits. And let’s say they lose just 2 days a year to dealing with problems caused by underfunding of the FOSS projects they work with – bugs, missing documentation, lack of features that would make life so much easier.

That’s over $1000 you’ve wasted. Why not just donate it to the open source project your employee says they use the most?