Developers need to be bringing the culture of open source to their places of work.  That means asking management for monthly budget they can use to make donations to open source projects (preferably to the projects they use in the company).  If the most successful open source projects are not receiving donations from the companies that use them it&#x27;s our own failing.<p>And if management refuses to allocate a budget for donating back to open source projects (either in developer time or in money) then developers should tell their coworkers that the company they work for is not an open-source friendly company.  They&#x27;re not doing their part to give back to the community of developers who are working so hard in their spare time to make what they do possible.  I think the last thing companies want is to build a wall between management and their developer teams like that.