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?

  • hperrin@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I donate hundreds of hours of my time every year maintaining several open source projects. Does that count?

  • j4k3@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    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.

  • doublejay1999@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Yes just a couple of bucks here and there.

    Almost BECAUSE they’ve done it for free, I like to chip in .