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?

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

DogMuffins,

Yes absolutely.

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

backhdlp,
@backhdlp@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

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.

fuggadihere, (edited )

I donate to Thunderbird. Monthly :)

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.

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.

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.

gibson,

Hello open source dev here (though no very popular projects), even relatively small donations are morale boosts (e.g, $5, $10), which is kind of sad but yeah. If you can’t do that, at least put effort into bug reports and use good manners.

KazuchijouNo,

Personally, I’m still just a student, so I don’t even have much money for myself. However, I’ve been compiling a list of projects to which I’d like to donate one day when I get a decent job. It includes many apps from FDroid, a couple of distros and a Japanese dictionary app that I absolutely love. I’d also like to create free-libre apps too, so I can give back to the community in the future.

D_Air1,
@D_Air1@lemmy.ml avatar

Yeah, donate to kde every now and then.

Black616Angel,

Of course. I donate to the Lemmy developers, Wikipedia and a few others.

But donating is kinda hard sometimes because I would really like a system, where dependencies also get some.
Take Lemmy for example. It’s built with rust and uses lots of crates (libraries). So why not give like 50% to Lemmy and the other half to the used crates. And those also split with their dependencies.

chemicalwonka,
@chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

I donated to:GrapheneOS, Wikipedia, FSF and Piped Devs.

portside,

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

BeatTakeshi,
@BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world avatar

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

Evotech, (edited )

A couple.

Lemmy included

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

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