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?
You’re kind of Robin Hood if you steal software and give the money to FOSS projects. 😄
I donate hundreds of hours of my time every year maintaining several open source projects. Does that count?
No. But I should. Probably time to start.
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.
Yes just a couple of bucks here and there.
Almost BECAUSE they’ve done it for free, I like to chip in .
I donated to libre office recently and I want to start donating to Wikipedia yearly now that I am settled in my first job
Yes. Homebrew and Asahi Linux.
every year
