Although we pirate for various reasons (ideology, no money to spend on entertainment, etc.) I wanted to know if the community actually donates money to any FOSS project? Nearly all of us use a torrent client based on libtorrent (qBit, Transmission, Deluge) or an open source Usenet client such as SABnzbd to consume our pirated content, yet I wonder, how many people here donate to FOSS projects?
I donated 15 euro to KDE in the past, as well as 10 euro to qBittorrent to keep the projects alive. I think that software that respects it’s users deserves to be rewarded for doing so. What is your opinion?
I was going to but I forgot, until recently, so I made a donation to a project that is essential to my workflow, that being Qtile, a window manager and Wayland compositor that is just amazing, has an incredible built-in bar, and very low resource usage, especially on the Wayland backend, and it keeps on getting better and closer to perfect, so my donation was to support the further development of the project and to express my gratitude for its existence.
Yes, usually at the end of the year if there are funds to spare I’ll donate to a bunch of FOSS projects, other non-profits, websites, etc. especially if I use them year-round.
I never used to donate to any FOSS project, now I donate every alternative month since I realized what I liked about the internet and tech is being taken away by greedy corporates.
My man, I can barely afford to pay to heat my sick, elderly parents living room (yes just that room, the rest of the house stays cold, can’t afford it).
I’m not donating money to anyone at all and won’t for the foreseeable future. When I do, it’ll be to cancer research <3
But I believe FOSS is a noble cause and if I were wealthy I absolutely would.
You most probably won’t need to donate to cancer research. It is already being funded in the hope that the medicines developed will bring in the dough once they are ready
After I got a good job, I started donating to FOSS projects. They have already proven to be useful, unlike other crowdfunded projects in the inception stage. My bill for software now exists for opensource software, whereas when Windows was my main OS, it was non-existent. I love the option to give money. That’s freedom.
Bought a Home Assistant dongle to support them and have a hopefully well supported piece of hardware. Sorely disappointed in it my my old 15 dollar dongle was better.
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I have before and likely will again, though I don’t on a continuous basis.
When Keybase did its Stellar giveaway back in the day I donated some Lumens to the Tor Project and another thing I don’t remember.
I was going to but I forgot, until recently, so I made a donation to a project that is essential to my workflow, that being Qtile, a window manager and Wayland compositor that is just amazing, has an incredible built-in bar, and very low resource usage, especially on the Wayland backend, and it keeps on getting better and closer to perfect, so my donation was to support the further development of the project and to express my gratitude for its existence.
Yes, usually at the end of the year if there are funds to spare I’ll donate to a bunch of FOSS projects, other non-profits, websites, etc. especially if I use them year-round.
I never used to donate to any FOSS project, now I donate every alternative month since I realized what I liked about the internet and tech is being taken away by greedy corporates.
My man, I can barely afford to pay to heat my sick, elderly parents living room (yes just that room, the rest of the house stays cold, can’t afford it).
I’m not donating money to anyone at all and won’t for the foreseeable future. When I do, it’ll be to cancer research <3
But I believe FOSS is a noble cause and if I were wealthy I absolutely would.
You most probably won’t need to donate to cancer research. It is already being funded in the hope that the medicines developed will bring in the dough once they are ready
Yes, I subscribe to a few on Open Collective.
After I got a good job, I started donating to FOSS projects. They have already proven to be useful, unlike other crowdfunded projects in the inception stage. My bill for software now exists for opensource software, whereas when Windows was my main OS, it was non-existent. I love the option to give money. That’s freedom.
Fuck closed source software.
Bought a Home Assistant dongle to support them and have a hopefully well supported piece of hardware. Sorely disappointed in it my my old 15 dollar dongle was better.
A couple.
Lemmy included
I straight up pay for usenet and indexers though. Probably the same as a Netflix sub
Gentoo - three digits Matrix - used to patreon, but it’s dead, so I stopped Wiki - occasionally
I really need to support Postgres and Patroni. Next year’s goals
I’ve donated to the Mozilla Foundation, Wikipedia and Hibiscus/Jameica (banking software) in the past, but haven’t in a decade or so.
I give $10/month to RiseUp for their VPN service.
I donate hundreds of hours of my time every year maintaining several open source projects. Does that count?
Yes, it does
Yes it counts and more than monetary contributions do
Agreed, do what you can but contributing if you have the skills and time for me is like being a superhero