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?
No. But I should. Probably time to start.
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?
Yes it counts and more than monetary contributions do
Agreed, do what you can but contributing if you have the skills and time for me is like being a superhero
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.
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.
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.
Have considered this but i have not yet started looking up anonymous ways to donate. Suggestions where i could start - eg how to anonymize credit card information online? If not anonymize, minimize personal info at least?
You can’t really anonymously use a credit card. Privacy.com will let you give bogus info to the FOSS project if you really don’t trust the devs having your name, but you’ll have to give Privacy a bunch of info which is arguably an even bigger invasion of privacy. I suppose it’s a matter of who you trust.
Most donations will go through an intermediary like PayPal so it’s not like you’re giving them your credit card info directly.
guess i can just use my credit card details. i trust the devs more than paypal. hahahahaha. i mean, they have done so much good already.
How about bank account that generate cards for you ? Then you can destroy it online
thanks for this suggestion. like one-time-use cards? nice. this is new to me. i will ask my bank if they offer this service.
If you have Revolut or N26 you can generate a card only load it for amount you want and delete it after use.
You could use the cryptocurrency Monero. It’s specifically made to be anonymous.
thanks for suggesting Monero, however i dont use cryptocurrency because we are still very cash dependent where im from.
You can buy monero online and then donate said monero to foss projects also online
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.
Yes just a couple of bucks here and there.
Almost BECAUSE they’ve done it for free, I like to chip in .
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… especially for newborn project it’s quite difficult to find volunteers or people just wanting to help out, test, triage reports, etc.
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
Yes. To the uBO list maintainers and Jellyfin.
Yes absolutely.
Pro tip: choose an appropriate annual budget, divide that amongst different projects in a logical way.
I donate to Thunderbird. Monthly :)
