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?
I donate hundreds of hours of my time every year maintaining several open source projects. Does that count?
You’re kind of Robin Hood if you steal software and give the money to FOSS projects. 😄
I’m broke
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.
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.
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.Debian project once a year, I also donated to Mozilla and Libreoffice last year.
Not actively (every month)