For the past two years I've donated all of Tarsnap's profits for December to the FreeBSD Foundation. (Considerably more than 1/12th of the annual profits, due to Tarsnap's growth -- last year it worked out to 15%.)

Good to see that I'm not alone. :-)

At 10% of gross revenue, these donations would indicate DDG pulled in ~$19,090 in 2010.

Yet another great reason to use DDG. Similarly, Gandi's support of Debian is a major reason I use them for all of my domain registrations.

I'm not sure what Gabriel's aspirations are for raising venture capital in the future, but abstracting this out...

I'm wondering whether a VC would have concerns about investing in a startup that had already made such a public commitment.

I donated money AND sweat to half of these projects in addition to several others personally, before I went and started my startup.

I hope people contribute outside of their 'corporate profits' both monetarily and with some elbow grease.

This is fantastic, too bad you'd never see something like this from a company on the stock market.