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?

  • Jeena
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    62 years ago

    I did donate first to Mozilla but switched to Thunderbird because I think they’re doing a better job. But now that I’m a stay at home dad for one year I stopped because I don’t have any income and need to keep my money together while only living from savings until I’m back at work.

      • Jeena
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        32 years ago

        They are helping with collecting the funds and so on but when you donate to Thunderbird the money will be used for Thunderbird development.