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?

Gazumi,

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.

malamignasanmig,

Have considered this but i have not yet started looking up anonymous ways to donate. Suggestions where i could start - eg how to anonymize credit card information online? If not anonymize, minimize personal info at least?

Alborlin,

How about bank account that generate cards for you ? Then you can destroy it online

malamignasanmig,

thanks for this suggestion. like one-time-use cards? nice. this is new to me. i will ask my bank if they offer this service.

Alborlin,

If you have Revolut or N26 you can generate a card only load it for amount you want and delete it after use.

melmi,
@melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

You can’t really anonymously use a credit card. Privacy.com will let you give bogus info to the FOSS project if you really don’t trust the devs having your name, but you’ll have to give Privacy a bunch of info which is arguably an even bigger invasion of privacy. I suppose it’s a matter of who you trust.

Most donations will go through an intermediary like PayPal so it’s not like you’re giving them your credit card info directly.

malamignasanmig,

guess i can just use my credit card details. i trust the devs more than paypal. hahahahaha. i mean, they have done so much good already.

meldrik,

You could use the cryptocurrency Monero. It’s specifically made to be anonymous.

malamignasanmig,

thanks for suggesting Monero, however i dont use cryptocurrency because we are still very cash dependent where im from.

aBundleOfFerrets,

You can buy monero online and then donate said monero to foss projects also online

Gazumi,

FOSS s such a wide area of practice. There is no detriment in supporting a FOSS keyboard or image editor. Perhaps for these, or for software that might sails across the lines you might consider Monero, or similar.

malamignasanmig,

i was thinking of donating to the projects i use a lot - inkscape and kdenlive. thanks for suggesting Monero, which was also suggested by another user. unfortunately, i dont have cryptocurrency. maybe i will just use cc for these donations.

Sabakodgo,
@Sabakodgo@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

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

art,
@art@lemmy.world avatar

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.

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

Yes, Syncthing, FreeFileSync, WinSCP, KeePassXC and others.

as well as 10 euro to qBittorrent

I would rather donate to Transmission.

TheFrirish,

I donate to the OSM foundation as a basic member and 6€ monthly to organic maps. I spend a lot of time contributing to OSM as well. it’s great to be able to see and use my own work.

Sebastrion,

For anyone that wants to contribut and have some fun, use StreetComplete on F-droid.

mjhelto,

Done and done!

alphacyberranger,
@alphacyberranger@lemmy.world avatar

Yes, I’m also planning to join there soon. I’m imagining Google to make maps a subscription service in a few years.

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.

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.

meldrik,

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

ndsvw,
@ndsvw@feddit.de avatar

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

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.

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.

alphacyberranger,
@alphacyberranger@lemmy.world avatar

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.

lambda,
@lambda@programming.dev avatar

Yes, I subscribe to a few on Open Collective.

onlinepersona,

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.

obinice,
@obinice@lemmy.world avatar

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.

Sentau, (edited )

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

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