If people want to support the TrueCrypt developers, there's a "Donate" button on the TrueCrypt website. People have instead chosen to give money to an initiative to have a thorough independent audit of the TrueCrypt code - it seems to me like it would be morally wrong to take their money and give it to the TrueCrypt developers instead. Presumably, if their preference was for that money to go to the TrueCrypt developers instead, they'd have skipped the middleman and donated directly.
Perhaps someone should organize a similar initiative for the Linux source code?
Perhaps someone should organize a similar initiative for the Linux source code?