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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No, but I don’t have a credit card, so I can’t
every year
You’re kind of Robin Hood if you steal software and give the money to FOSS projects. 😄
I dont have much money But i always love the message in Pirated Stuff “if you like it buy it!”
So one day i thought “come one at least pay 1 buck, because if everybody would pay at least 1 buck to a Project they like it would be an awesome Project!”
So i started with one Thing (i think gadgetbridge it was) and donated 1€ every year. So i did it to twelve Projects (1 for each month) and since i got my First Job, i pushed it up to 5€
So right now i Sonate 5€ a year to 12 Foss / other Projects i REALLY belive in and love (and use on a daily base) everything Else will be Still pirated (excwpr for winrar! I PAYD FOR WINRAR!!!)
It would be foolish not to pay for winrar. They are known for being extremely litigious of people who use the software once the license expires
I’ll soon have a salary and, as I mainly pirate music, I’d like to donate to SpotiFlyer and the artists I listen to the most. However, so far I haven’t donated anything.
No. But I should. Probably time to start.
I donate 10€ to Arch Linux and NixOS monthly because they let me run all my stuff and occasionally to projects I like. Especially the ones that save me money that would go into media consumption etc.
I donate 10€ to (…) NixOS
So… you’re essentially financing the next big ecosystem / vendor lock-in that will completely fuck and obliterate the fully open-source, free and not dependent on some-cloud-subscription-service operating system model we’ve going on today in Linux.
What the hell are you talking about? If you mean nixos’ dependence on aws, there are alternatives to that like cachix and in the worst case, you could still setup some distributed caching network like ipfs or something torrent based. AWS was simply the easiest choice at the time.
Yep to the EFF, a few GNU projects, and previously to random developers I liked.
Yes, I donate once a year to the projects I use most. I allocate about 200€ and split it up among those.
I had plans to do something similar this holiday season for the first time. Normally I just donate to my local jail bond fund.
Yes, Syncthing, FreeFileSync, WinSCP, KeePassXC and others.
as well as 10 euro to qBittorrent
I would rather donate to Transmission.
Every Christmas, to the most used projects of the year (that are not rich already).
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.
Thunderbird is a Mozilla project tho?
They are helping with collecting the funds and so on but when you donate to Thunderbird the money will be used for Thunderbird development.
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.
not every one but the ones i particularly find useful (i monthly donate to thunderbird and firefox) or through github sponsors
Count me in. I believe they shared their work out of passion and why not us end-user/power-user give back if these donations combined this can be beneficial to the developer’s lives. Or contribute to the project itself.
