Do you donate to FOSS projects?

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?

alphacyberranger,
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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.

USSEthernet, (edited )

Yes. I’ve donated multiple times to the Octoprint project because it’s free and an invaluable 3d printing tool. Speaking of this project, this dev is currently in dire need of donations. If you own a 3d printer and use this tool, consider donating. octoprint.org

Recently donated to Electronic Frontier Foundation because online privacy is under attack worldwide and I use privacy badger. eff.org

I’ve donated to signal a few times as well since it is my and my family’s primary messaging app. signal.org

I also live by a code that I don’t pirate indie games unless it’s for my younger son, who has an attention span of a goldfish so I don’t waste money buying him something he’ll play for 5 minutes (but leaves it open well past the 2 hour return window on steam) then never plays again. Or if that indie dev went exclusive only on a specific platform.

brickfrog, (edited )

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.

ndsvw,
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Yes. Maybe $50 a year split up to Debian, KDE, and a few app developers of apps I use regularly.

meldrik,

I have a recurrent donation to the development of Lemmy, set up on Liberapay.

theshatterstone54,

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.

mikwee,

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.

TCB13, (edited )
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Yes, Syncthing, FreeFileSync, WinSCP, KeePassXC and others.

as well as 10 euro to qBittorrent

I would rather donate to Transmission.

art,
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I’ve donated to Ardour for years and I pitched in at the last Kdenlive find raising. I’d like to chip in more once my budget has stabilized.

Sabakodgo,
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Yes, I donate $1-5 monthly to many devs.

cupcakezealot,
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not every one but the ones i particularly find useful (i monthly donate to thunderbird and firefox) or through github sponsors

JoeKrogan,
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I release code under GPL licences , I seed distros and have contributed financially in the past.

paschko,

I donated to libre office recently and I want to start donating to Wikipedia yearly now that I am settled in my first job

Ozzy,

No, but I plan to as soon as I can financially afford to.

There are countless Foss tools I’m using that deserve the money.

Currently I try to “contribute” by releasing my stuff into the open source space for free.

01011,

I donate to any project I use that takes xmr.

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