Defending open source should begin with real, tangible support for both the projects and its developers. Not just words.

With my OpenBSD developer hat on, getting new hardware in the hands of developers is really important, many of us are hacking on 5-10 year old thinkpads that need replacing.

https://www.openbsd.org/want.html

The OpenBSD foundation is ~50% away from its fundraising goal for 2026!

https://www.openbsdfoundation.org/campaign2026.html

Also in addition to funding the open source projects you use, if you can, please consider directly supporting individual contributors/developers personally who work on those projects, many are volunteers and even a small monthly contribution could mean the difference.

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