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As an individual where do I click and say donate $20 towards the development efforts of the Linux kernel?

It looks like one can donate towards the LF as a whole [1], but the LF manages a ton of other projects besides Linux. So if was possible to restrict small donations towards the development of the Linux kernel, that would be great.

[1] https://www.linuxfoundation.org/about/donate

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Directed donations don't always work. If there is a fund paying to multiple things and you say "this $20" goes to that project, they can just send that much less from the fund and send it elsewhere.

My state promised that money from the lottery would go to education rather than the general fund. It does, but that doesn't mean education got more money when they started the lottery.

The question is how much unrestricted donations would the Linux Foundation get if they offered directed donations as well. They might not get enough unrestricted funds to pull this.

It might also not look good on them if they used the unrestricted donations in a very unbalanced way to counter restricted donations the way you describe, so they might get less unrestricted donations in the future.

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