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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    11 months ago

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

    • e_mc2@feddit.nlEnglish
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      11 months ago

      Not too broke to own a PC or smart phone to be here, so easy excuse imo. Small bits also help, it’s the gesture that counts.

      • Schlecknits@feddit.deEnglish
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        11 months ago

        Don’t shame others into donating please.

        In order to participate in modern life you have to own a device which is able to connect to the internet. Also older devices get often gifted away to those who can less afford them.

  • Black616Angel@feddit.deEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Of course. I donate to the Lemmy developers, Wikipedia and a few others.

    But donating is kinda hard sometimes because I would really like a system, where dependencies also get some.
    Take Lemmy for example. It’s built with rust and uses lots of crates (libraries). So why not give like 50% to Lemmy and the other half to the used crates. And those also split with their dependencies.