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Do you donate to FOSS projects? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by CriticalMiss@lemmy.world to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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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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[–] hubobes@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yep, monthly towards Mozilla and Wireguard.

[–] _hovi_@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Not a big anti Mozilla guy but have you seen their earnings? You could probably put the Mozilla donations to better use elsewhere imo

[–] XenGi@lemmy.chaos.berlin 15 points 1 year ago

Mozilla needs to stay alive no matter what. If they go away there is only Google browsers left.

[–] TCB13@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Why Mozilla?? https://lunduke.locals.com/post/4387539/firefox-money-investigating-the-bizarre-finances-of-mozilla

Payments to nonexistent companies? Funding politics? Reliance on a single customer? And that's just for starters.