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FOSS in general needs better means of financial support. While the software is free and libre, developer time is not, and ultimately they gotta eat and pay bills. I hope they get positive results and don't catch much unnecessary flak.
Have you visited Wikipedia lately? I'll gladly donate to KDE when I see this next time.
No problem... Once a year is fine. It's a non-profit based in Germany...
Thunderbird shows it once at every startup...
Thunderbird was dead until it added a donations banner then used the donations to hire some programmers.
WinRaR has begged me for money for years
Well, you do in theory need a license to use winrar for more than 30 days
Why use winrar when 7zip and peazip are right there?
PeaZip is nice. I don't use 7zip because it looks and feels ancient. Both are open source and better than WinRAR though.
While I was still on Windows, the killer feature that kept WinRar installed, instead of only using 7zip, was the simple fact that its file explorer supported hotkeys like Ctrl+C, and that you could seamlessly copy files to and from Windows' file explorer.
I'm pretty sure PeaZip supports these as well
Thunderbird shows it for a at every startup
Honestly didn't realise till you pointed that out. I'm so used to seeing it that it doesn't register to me what it's saying anymore. Probably for the best that KDE only does it once a year; if it were daily I'm sure it wouldn't even register to people that it's asking for donations.
Sorry, I've already donated all the Plasma I can safely donate! /s jic :)
I kinda thought this was some new crowd funding scheme...
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