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?

Sneptaur,
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When I can, I do. I’ve donated to several projects over the years.

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.

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.

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

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.

Engywuck,

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

CleanDefinition,

I donate to Linux Mint every now and then.

the_seven_sins,
@the_seven_sins@feddit.de avatar

Debian project once a year, I also donated to Mozilla and Libreoffice last year.

jeena,
@jeena@jemmy.jeena.net avatar

I did donate first to Mozilla but switched to Thunderbird because I think they’re doing a better job. But now that I’m a stay at home dad for one year I stopped because I don’t have any income and need to keep my money together while only living from savings until I’m back at work.

Unforeseen,

Thunderbird is a Mozilla project tho?

jeena,
@jeena@jemmy.jeena.net avatar

They are helping with collecting the funds and so on but when you donate to Thunderbird the money will be used for Thunderbird development.

June,

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

captain_aggravated,
@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works avatar

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

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.

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.

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

unknowing8343,

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

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