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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    2 years ago

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

  • gkd@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Just as an aside, donating does not have to be monetary. Helping (if possible) with development, triaging issues or helping with support/forums of any kind, along with in general filing good issues goes miles for FOSS projects, especially larger ones with only a few developers.

  • tetris11@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    2 years ago

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

  • TheFrirish@jlai.luEnglish
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    2 years ago

    I donate to the OSM foundation as a basic member and 6€ monthly to organic maps. I spend a lot of time contributing to OSM as well. it’s great to be able to see and use my own work.