"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..."