I successfully encouraged my boss to donate to GnuPG (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gnupg.org&#x2F;donate&#x2F;index.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gnupg.org&#x2F;donate&#x2F;index.html</a>) when it was covered in the media.<p>But in general it seems that most business owners I worked for don&#x27;t think about that also open source and free software projects need money to be kept alive an thriving.