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?

j4k3,
@j4k3@lemmy.world avatar

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.

ryan_harg,
@ryan_harg@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

I absolutely do, not necessarily on the pirating tools I use , though.

chagall,

Yes. To the uBO list maintainers and Jellyfin.

tetris11,
@tetris11@lemmy.ml avatar

Yep to the EFF, a few GNU projects, and previously to random developers I liked.

ragepaw,

No. But I should. Probably time to start.

gkd,
@gkd@lemmy.ml avatar

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.

DieguiTux8623,

Yes… especially for newborn project it’s quite difficult to find volunteers or people just wanting to help out, test, triage reports, etc.

qaz,

I’ve donated to KDE before and plan on doing again. I plan on increasing the frequency when I graduate and have a job.

Engywuck,

Yep, donated/bought to Cryptomator/Fair email/Dav5x… Mostly one-time contributions, though. Better than nothing, I guess.

DeltaTangoLima, (edited )
@DeltaTangoLima@reddrefuge.com avatar

Yep - I have a list of a dozen or so that I donate to annually, so about one a month. Usually it’s around 20 dollars (mine or theirs - depends on how they’re setup to receive).

Anamana,
@Anamana@feddit.de avatar

Not actively (every month)

0x4E4F,

Nope, but I think I’ve given enough to the community over the years.

Though I was thinking of donating to Void (maybe even some sort of a partnership, if they agree to it, which I seriously doubt) cuz I use it for business purposes as well.

DogMuffins,

Yes absolutely.

Pro tip: choose an appropriate annual budget, divide that amongst different projects in a logical way.

unknowing8343,

Every Christmas, to the most used projects of the year (that are not rich already).

bruchsturm,

Yes, I donate once a year to the projects I use most. I allocate about 200€ and split it up among those.

mjhelto,

I had plans to do something similar this holiday season for the first time. Normally I just donate to my local jail bond fund.

Gormadt,
@Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Sometimes

Usually I think of a one time donation as a purchase price for me or sometimes an annual subscription fee depending on how much I use it

Though the amount I put down ain’t much, I still think it’s a good idea

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