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?

Evotech, (edited )

A couple.

Lemmy included

I straight up pay for usenet and indexers though. Probably the same as a Netflix sub

msage,

Gentoo - three digits Matrix - used to patreon, but it’s dead, so I stopped Wiki - occasionally

I really need to support Postgres and Patroni. Next year’s goals

Linkerbaan,
@Linkerbaan@lemmy.world avatar

Bought a Home Assistant dongle to support them and have a hopefully well supported piece of hardware. Sorely disappointed in it my my old 15 dollar dongle was better.

BeatTakeshi,
@BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world avatar

EFF every now and then www.eff.org/fr/pages/donate-eff

viking,
@viking@infosec.pub avatar

I’ve donated to the Mozilla Foundation, Wikipedia and Hibiscus/Jameica (banking software) in the past, but haven’t in a decade or so.

portside,

I’ve donated to VLC multiple times in the past and have a subscription for wikipedia

backhdlp,
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I currently do not have the ability to donate, but I will once I do.

CW: opinionI believe FOSS developers spending time to maintain something I (or others) use should be paid for that time, especially if it’s their free time. Possibly off-topic, but I think, even if you donate to them, you aren’t automatically entitiled to a FOSS developer’s time. It’s your privilege to use something they made in their time for not you, and you have no right to demand them to change anything about it, so you should at least have the decency to be nice.

ipkpjersi, (edited )

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.

njordomir,

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.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S,
@PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

Not yet, but I will when I get a job. I want to give back to the community, but I can’t afford it right now.

captain_aggravated,
@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works avatar

I have before and likely will again, though I don’t on a continuous basis.

bastion,

I have a budget saved for donations that comes from overflow in other areas, when there is overflow. I spend it on the projects I use and like most.

June,

I give $10/month to RiseUp for their VPN service.

hperrin,

I donate hundreds of hours of my time every year maintaining several open source projects. Does that count?

Dsklnsadog,
@Dsklnsadog@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Yes, it does

Sentau,

Yes it counts and more than monetary contributions do

omnissiah,
@omnissiah@iusearchlinux.fyi avatar

Agreed, do what you can but contributing if you have the skills and time for me is like being a superhero

thanatotus,

I’ve donated in the past to elementaryOS, other Linux projects and separately to Wikipedia.

I’ve tried contributing code, but it’s miniscule. I wish I could give more time.

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