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?

  • hperrin@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 months ago

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

  • tetris11@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Yep to the EFF, a few GNU projects, and previously to random developers I liked.

  • Engywuck@lemm.eeEnglish
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    8 months ago

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

  • thanatotus@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    8 months ago

    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.

  • rando@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Yes, also generally I donate different project every 6 months (instead of recurring payment to one project).

  • KazuNoDan@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    8 months ago

    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.

  • ☆ corvidae/jackdaw@leminal.spaceEnglish
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    8 months ago

    this post has inspired me to look into it! i already was a part of proton’s unlimited plan, but im def gonna start financially giving to other projects (and developers of said projects) that have been life changing for me, primarily linux mint and kde!

  • gibson@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    8 months ago

    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.

  • j4k3@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 months ago

    No, but I’m disabled on a next to nothing/gifts from family budget. I sincerely appreciate those that can donate and share my work on git freely.

  • doublejay1999@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Yes just a couple of bucks here and there.

    Almost BECAUSE they’ve done it for free, I like to chip in .