I'm trying to get a feel for how open companies are with their wallets when it comes to open source projects or developers working full time on open source.
I work at a major "traditional" software company. My project of the last 1.5 months will be open sourced. It solves a (very) domain-specific issue we have that our customers may encounter as well.
We've given roughly $8k in the last 12mo
Were they all projects your company uses internal? Through gittips?
Yes, projects used here. They were cash payments to the primary organization responsible for the softwares. Mostly is was to push for attention to bugs we wanted fixed.