If you were enormously wealthy and could fund the development of a new open-source software program or radically improve an existing one, what would you do?

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  • t2sde

    T2 SDE Linux

  • nix

    Nix, the purely functional package manager

    Funny that, you're describing https://nixos.org ;)

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  • nixpkgs

    Nix Packages collection & NixOS

    Here's the defaults for apache httpd for example: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/nixos/modules/services/web-servers/apache-httpd/vhost-options.nix

  • tldr

    📚 Collaborative cheatsheets for console commands

  • FreeCAD

    This is the official source code of FreeCAD, a free and opensource multiplatform 3D parametric modeler.

    Shout out to FreeCAD! since you didn't mention it.

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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