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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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[–] backhdlp@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 year ago

I currently do not have the ability to donate, but I will once I do.

CW: opinionI believe FOSS developers spending time to maintain something I (or others) use should be paid for that time, especially if it's their free time.

Possibly off-topic, but I think, even if you donate to them, you aren't automatically entitiled to a FOSS developer's time. It's your privilege to use something they made in their time for not you, and you have no right to demand them to change anything about it, so you should at least have the decency to be nice.