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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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[–] paschko@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 11 months ago

I donated to libre office recently and I want to start donating to Wikipedia yearly now that I am settled in my first job

[–] M500@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago

I donated to Linux Mint once, I think it’s time to make another donation.

This time, I think I’ll donate to one of the emulator developers. I’ll have to take a look and see which platform is currently receiving updates pretty regularly. I’m learning towards ryujinx as that’s the main switch emulator I use. But I’m also considering pcsx2 as I really love that system.

[–] Sygheil@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Count me in. I believe they shared their work out of passion and why not us end-user/power-user give back if these donations combined this can be beneficial to the developer's lives. Or contribute to the project itself.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 11 months ago

Yes. Homebrew and Asahi Linux.

[–] 0x4E4F@infosec.pub 1 points 11 months ago

Nope, but I think I've given enough to the community over the years.

Though I was thinking of donating to Void (maybe even some sort of a partnership, if they agree to it, which I seriously doubt) cuz I use it for business purposes as well.

[–] Anamana@feddit.de 1 points 11 months ago

Not actively (every month)

[–] DeltaTangoLima@reddrefuge.com 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Yep - I have a list of a dozen or so that I donate to annually, so about one a month. Usually it's around 20 dollars (mine or theirs - depends on how they're setup to receive).

[–] White_Flight@lemmy.world -1 points 11 months ago
[–] Blackout@kbin.social -2 points 11 months ago
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