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?

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.

BeatTakeshi,
@BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world avatar

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

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.

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

Evotech, (edited )

A couple.

Lemmy included

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

obinice,
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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

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.

lambda,
@lambda@programming.dev avatar

Yes, I subscribe to a few on Open Collective.

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.

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.

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.

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

meldrik,

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

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.

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.

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