Lots of companies contribute patches or release open source code of their own, but is anyone giving them money? Do any companies have policies of donating to open source projects used in production code?
I know mine has. We weren't a big shop, but we donated to the OSS software companies that created the software we used. Each month, we took ~200 dollars and gave it to one of a long list of OSS companies, some of which include:
WordPress Foundation
Bamboo Invoice
Apache Foundation
~half a dozen really clutch guys who developed obscure but awesome plugins
LibreOffice
Flowplayer
WordPress Foundation Bamboo Invoice Apache Foundation ~half a dozen really clutch guys who developed obscure but awesome plugins LibreOffice Flowplayer
Just to name a few.