The Open Software Foundation is dedicated to promoting openness, innovation, and opportunity with technologies that help us better achieve our goals. If you enjoy using our technologies and believe in our vision, please consider making a donation. The names of 100 most recent individual donors as well as all corporate donors will appear on our Supporters page. Volunteer developers are immortalized with a listing of all developers (past and present) and their contribution efforts so that they will always have a career reference with us, they also have the option to receive tax deductions for their efforts. Corporate donors should visit our Corporate Giving page.
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