Hello.
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 donate hundreds of hours of my time every year maintaining several open source projects. Does that count?
Yes, it does
No, but I’m disabled on a next to nothing/gifts from family budget. I sincerely appreciate those that can donate and share my work on git freely.
Yep to the EFF, a few GNU projects, and previously to random developers I liked.
Yes yes and yes! These people are a lifeline for people like me who can’t code. People like me gain so much. Free is fun, but if you can donate, even one $, €, £ or other.
Yes just a couple of bucks here and there.
Almost BECAUSE they’ve done it for free, I like to chip in .
I don’t sail the seas too much, but I’ve been donating to FOSS projects ever since I left the church. This is my tithe.
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.
Just as an aside, donating does not have to be monetary. Helping (if possible) with development, triaging issues or helping with support/forums of any kind, along with in general filing good issues goes miles for FOSS projects, especially larger ones with only a few developers.
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.
Yes, you should support open source when possible if the project(s) you use are beneficial to you! Your dollars are far more valuable to help out a small team of independent volunteers vs multi-billion dollar corporations that really don’t need it.
If you can’t donate money, donate your time / skills or do both! Make the world of software a better place, one small contribution at a time!
Yes I do, and I maintain a couple FOSS projects as well.
edit: with that said, the FOSS projects I maintain do not accept donations.
Yes. To the uBO list maintainers and Jellyfin.
I have before and likely will again, though I don’t on a continuous basis.
A couple.
Lemmy included
I straight up pay for usenet and indexers though. Probably the same as a Netflix sub
EFF every now and then https://www.eff.org/fr/pages/donate-eff
