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

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes it counts and more than monetary contributions do

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Agreed, do what you can but contributing if you have the skills and time for me is like being a superhero

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Yes, it does