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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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[–] JackOfAllTraits@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I would rather fund someone looking to make a single good cross-platform XMPP native client (iOS, Android, Windows and macOS) with push notifications that actually work and video - not the garbage we've today.

So are you? Because if you are just sitting around and waiting for someone out there to make a product by your own perfect standards, than its equal to doing nothing. Compared to doing nothing, supporting Calyx and/or Signal is infinitely better.

[–] Corgana@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago

I used to be a mod on /r/StarTrek and everytime we did a fundraiser it was inevitably met with criticisms of some kind. I would usually respond with "That sounds like a great cause too, why don't you post the receipt (we encouraged users to share recepits) for that instead?" and never once saw it.