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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I donate hundreds of hours of my time every year maintaining several open source projects. Does that count?
Yes it counts and more than monetary contributions do
Yes, it does
No, but I’m disabled on a next to nothing/gifts from family budget. I sincerely appreciate those that can donate and share my work on git freely.
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.
I mean that NixOS and immutability trend is the next Docker/Kubernetes that will eventually lead to make people dependent on some cloud based repository or other similar solution controlled by a single entity.
cloud based repository
Where do you think other distro’s repos are?
I’m headed to the store to pick up some milk and the new Arch update thumb drive, need anything?
Yep to the EFF, a few GNU projects, and previously to random developers I liked.
Yes yes and yes! These people are a lifeline for people like me who can’t code. People like me gain so much. Free is fun, but if you can donate, even one $, €, £ or other.
Yes just a couple of bucks here and there.
Almost BECAUSE they’ve done it for free, I like to chip in .
I never used to donate to any FOSS project, now I donate every alternative month since I realized what I liked about the internet and tech is being taken away by greedy corporates.
I don’t sail the seas too much, but I’ve been donating to FOSS projects ever since I left the church. This is my tithe.
Just as an aside, donating does not have to be monetary. Helping (if possible) with development, triaging issues or helping with support/forums of any kind, along with in general filing good issues goes miles for FOSS projects, especially larger ones with only a few developers.
Yes, you should support open source when possible if the project(s) you use are beneficial to you! Your dollars are far more valuable to help out a small team of independent volunteers vs multi-billion dollar corporations that really don’t need it.
If you can’t donate money, donate your time / skills or do both! Make the world of software a better place, one small contribution at a time!
My man, I can barely afford to pay to heat my sick, elderly parents living room (yes just that room, the rest of the house stays cold, can’t afford it).
I’m not donating money to anyone at all and won’t for the foreseeable future. When I do, it’ll be to cancer research <3
But I believe FOSS is a noble cause and if I were wealthy I absolutely would.
You most probably won’t need to donate to cancer research. It is already being funded in the hope that the medicines developed will bring in the dough once they are ready
I donate to Thunderbird. Monthly :)
I currently do not have the ability to donate, but I will once I do.
CW: opinion
I believe FOSS developers spending time to maintain something I (or others) use should be paid for that time, especially if it’s their free time.
Possibly off-topic, but I think, even if you donate to them, you aren’t automatically entitiled to a FOSS developer’s time. It’s your privilege to use something they made in their time for not you, and you have no right to demand them to change anything about it, so you should at least have the decency to be nice.
Yes I do, and I maintain a couple FOSS projects as well.
edit: with that said, the FOSS projects I maintain do not accept donations.
Yes. To the uBO list maintainers and Jellyfin.
