Open Source Philanthropy

If you participate in an open source project, chances are that you love technology. That goes without saying.

However, the truth is that open source is also about loving or caring about people. Today, I want to feature a Firefox extension that I have been using for a while now. I even recommend it to others: FireFTP. This is a great little tool that works from any Firefox browser, and gives you the ability to upload and download files from other servers using FTP.

The tool is free, but you are invited to donate funds to keep the project going. Half of all proceeds go towards helping various orphanages in Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina and in Vukovar, Croatia. Isn’t that something?

The writer of the software also encourages users of his software to volunteer in their own community. He is definitely using open source to make the world a better place for people.

To start using the FireFTP Firefox extension today, goto the Firefox addon site.