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?

hemko,

I have a small monthly budget for donations in general. It’s often niche stuff I love to use, and/or humanitarian aid

Serval,
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I’ll soon have a salary and, as I mainly pirate music, I’d like to donate to SpotiFlyer and the artists I listen to the most. However, so far I haven’t donated anything.

doublejay1999,
@doublejay1999@lemmy.world avatar

Yes just a couple of bucks here and there.

Almost BECAUSE they’ve done it for free, I like to chip in .

kionite231,

I wish I could 😢

beta_tester,

Yes, the smaller the project, the likelier I donate (more often)

FuyuhikoDate,

I dont have much money But i always love the message in Pirated Stuff “if you like it buy it!”

So one day i thought “come one at least pay 1 buck, because if everybody would pay at least 1 buck to a Project they like it would be an awesome Project!”

So i started with one Thing (i think gadgetbridge it was) and donated 1€ every year. So i did it to twelve Projects (1 for each month) and since i got my First Job, i pushed it up to 5€

So right now i Sonate 5€ a year to 12 Foss / other Projects i REALLY belive in and love (and use on a daily base) everything Else will be Still pirated (excwpr for winrar! I PAYD FOR WINRAR!!!)

aBundleOfFerrets,

It would be foolish not to pay for winrar. They are known for being extremely litigious of people who use the software once the license expires

rufus,

You’re kind of Robin Hood if you steal software and give the money to FOSS projects. 😄

M500,

I donated to Linux Mint once, I think it’s time to make another donation.

This time, I think I’ll donate to one of the emulator developers. I’ll have to take a look and see which platform is currently receiving updates pretty regularly. I’m learning towards ryujinx as that’s the main switch emulator I use. But I’m also considering pcsx2 as I really love that system.

01011,

I donate to any project I use that takes xmr.

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.

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

JoeKrogan,
@JoeKrogan@lemmy.world avatar

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

cupcakezealot,
@cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

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

hubobes,

Yep, monthly towards Mozilla and Wireguard.

_hovi_,

Not a big anti Mozilla guy but have you seen their earnings? You could probably put the Mozilla donations to better use elsewhere imo

ndsvw,
@ndsvw@feddit.de avatar

… which makes Mozilla more dependent from you know what company…

TCB13, (edited )
@TCB13@lemmy.world avatar

Why Mozilla?? …locals.com/…/firefox-money-investigating-the-biz…

Payments to nonexistent companies? Funding politics? Reliance on a single customer? And that’s just for starters.

JackOfAllTraits, (edited )
@JackOfAllTraits@lemmy.world avatar

Yup, to Fediverse, this server, Calyx fondation and Signal

TCB13,
@TCB13@lemmy.world avatar

Calyx fonundation and Signal

Naaaa I’m not going to fund an Android ROM that has inherit and exploitable security vulnerabilities (read on hardware support requirements of the GrapheneOS project and you’ll understand) nor a messaging App that was probably first funded by the NSA and we never know.

I would rather fund someone looking to make a single good cross-platform XMPP native client (iOS, Android, Windows and macOS) with push notifications that actually work and video - not the garbage we’ve today.

JackOfAllTraits,
@JackOfAllTraits@lemmy.world avatar

I would rather fund someone looking to make a single good cross-platform XMPP native client (iOS, Android, Windows and macOS) with push notifications that actually work and video - not the garbage we’ve today.

So are you? Because if you are just sitting around and waiting for someone out there to make a product by your own perfect standards, than its equal to doing nothing. Compared to doing nothing, supporting Calyx and/or Signal is infinitely better.

Corgana,
@Corgana@startrek.website avatar

I used to be a mod on /r/StarTrek and everytime we did a fundraiser it was inevitably met with criticisms of some kind. I would usually respond with “That sounds like a great cause too, why don’t you post the receipt (we encouraged users to share recepits) for that instead?” and never once saw it.

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