Get (And Give) The Gift of Open Source

"This Christmas I decided to give a few gifts to people in the open-source community. I'm making donations to the maintainers of some of my favorite and most widely-used software projects. They've earned some payback!

"Most of the programs I depend on most, I've discovered, are actually not big ones--they're little things, applications that fill in the gaps between other apps, and that make my work all the easier..."

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