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Do you donate to FOSS projects? (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

Yes. Homebrew and Asahi Linux.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

You're kind of Robin Hood if you steal software and give the money to FOSS projects. 😄

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago

Yes just a couple of bucks here and there.

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

No. But I should. Probably time to start.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 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.