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No. But I should. Probably time to start.

You're kind of Robin Hood if you steal software and give the money to FOSS projects. 😄

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.

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

Yes, I donate once a year to the projects I use most. I allocate about 200€ and split it up among those.

Yep to the EFF, a few GNU projects, and previously to random developers I liked.

I donate 10€ to Arch Linux and NixOS monthly because they let me run all my stuff and occasionally to projects I like. Especially the ones that save me money that would go into media consumption etc.

Yes yes and yes! These people are a lifeline for people like me who can't code. People like me gain so much. Free is fun, but if you can donate, even one $, €, £ or other.

Yes just a couple of bucks here and there.

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

I never used to donate to any FOSS project, now I donate every alternative month since I realized what I liked about the internet and tech is being taken away by greedy corporates.

Just as an aside, donating does not have to be monetary. Helping (if possible) with development, triaging issues or helping with support/forums of any kind, along with in general filing good issues goes miles for FOSS projects, especially larger ones with only a few developers.

Yes, you should support open source when possible if the project(s) you use are beneficial to you! Your dollars are far more valuable to help out a small team of independent volunteers vs multi-billion dollar corporations that really don't need it.

If you can't donate money, donate your time / skills or do both! Make the world of software a better place, one small contribution at a time!

I donate to the OSM foundation as a basic member and 6€ monthly to organic maps. I spend a lot of time contributing to OSM as well. it's great to be able to see and use my own work.

I don't sail the seas too much, but I've been donating to FOSS projects ever since I left the church. This is my tithe.

Yes. To the uBO list maintainers and Jellyfin.

I dont have much money But i always love the message in Pirated Stuff "if you like it buy it!"

So one day i thought "come one at least pay 1 buck, because if everybody would pay at least 1 buck to a Project they like it would be an awesome Project!"

So i started with one Thing (i think gadgetbridge it was) and donated 1€ every year. So i did it to twelve Projects (1 for each month) and since i got my First Job, i pushed it up to 5€

So right now i Sonate 5€ a year to 12 Foss / other Projects i REALLY belive in and love (and use on a daily base) everything Else will be Still pirated (excwpr for winrar! I PAYD FOR WINRAR!!!)

My man, I can barely afford to pay to heat my sick, elderly parents living room (yes just that room, the rest of the house stays cold, can't afford it).

I'm not donating money to anyone at all and won't for the foreseeable future. When I do, it'll be to cancer research <3

But I believe FOSS is a noble cause and if I were wealthy I absolutely would.

Yes absolutely.

Pro tip: choose an appropriate annual budget, divide that amongst different projects in a logical way.

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

I donate to Thunderbird. Monthly :)

After I got a good job, I started donating to FOSS projects. They have already proven to be useful, unlike other crowdfunded projects in the inception stage. My bill for software now exists for opensource software, whereas when Windows was my main OS, it was non-existent. I love the option to give money. That's freedom.

Fuck closed source software.

Yes I do, and I maintain a couple FOSS projects as well.

edit: with that said, the FOSS projects I maintain do not accept donations.

I have a budget saved for donations that comes from overflow in other areas, when there is overflow. I spend it on the projects I use and like most.

A couple.

Lemmy included

I straight up pay for usenet and indexers though. Probably the same as a Netflix sub

Of course. I donate to the Lemmy developers, Wikipedia and a few others.

But donating is kinda hard sometimes because I would really like a system, where dependencies also get some.
Take Lemmy for example. It's built with rust and uses lots of crates (libraries). So why not give like 50% to Lemmy and the other half to the used crates. And those also split with their dependencies.

I've donated to VLC multiple times in the past and have a subscription for wikipedia

Yeah, donate to kde every now and then.

I donated to:GrapheneOS, Wikipedia, FSF and Piped Devs.

Personally, I'm still just a student, so I don't even have much money for myself. However, I've been compiling a list of projects to which I'd like to donate one day when I get a decent job. It includes many apps from FDroid, a couple of distros and a Japanese dictionary app that I absolutely love. I'd also like to create free-libre apps too, so I can give back to the community in the future.

EFF every now and then https://www.eff.org/fr/pages/donate-eff

I was going to but I forgot, until recently, so I made a donation to a project that is essential to my workflow, that being Qtile, a window manager and Wayland compositor that is just amazing, has an incredible built-in bar, and very low resource usage, especially on the Wayland backend, and it keeps on getting better and closer to perfect, so my donation was to support the further development of the project and to express my gratitude for its existence.

When I can, I do. I’ve donated to several projects over the years.

I did donate first to Mozilla but switched to Thunderbird because I think they're doing a better job. But now that I'm a stay at home dad for one year I stopped because I don't have any income and need to keep my money together while only living from savings until I'm back at work.

Yep, monthly towards Mozilla and Wireguard.

Yep, donated/bought to Cryptomator/Fair email/Dav5x... Mostly one-time contributions, though. Better than nothing, I guess.

I release code under GPL licences , I seed distros and have contributed financially in the past.

Yes, usually at the end of the year if there are funds to spare I'll donate to a bunch of FOSS projects, other non-profits, websites, etc. especially if I use them year-round.

No, but I plan to as soon as I can financially afford to.

There are countless Foss tools I'm using that deserve the money.

Currently I try to "contribute" by releasing my stuff into the open source space for free.

I'll soon have a salary and, as I mainly pirate music, I'd like to donate to SpotiFlyer and the artists I listen to the most. However, so far I haven't donated anything.

I absolutely do, not necessarily on the pirating tools I use , though.