Perhaps Tip4Commit should make it easier for developers to nominate a charity for their unclaimed tips to go to? Or just automatically donate anything unclaimed after six months.
Pretty shitty reference, admittedly.
But then again, I didn't see any sources on those pages so they might as well be based on a thread like this one.
All in all, Linus may have had a lot of money on paper, but unless he cashed out at the top, his stock is worth a lot less now. That is not to say that he may still have a couple of millions, but he's not even close to the really rich people likes Gates with his 77 billion.
Did you just make that up? Linus is paid by the Linux Foundation, which is a non-profit, which means the information is largely available. He is not a director or board member but so the exact details are not available. [1]
At any rate, it looks like Non-Director employee expense is $2.34M in total. There are at least 5 employees who combine for that number, and it includes all expense including travel/benefits/taxes/etc. My guess his annual salary is probably around $400k, which would be equal to the highest paid director. It could be $250k, it could be $1M, but it is absolutely impossible that it is $10M.
http://990s.foundationcenter.org/990_pdf_archive/460/4605038...