Thank you! More people should do this. It may seem like $5 is nothing, but it’s actually great help. Even $1 helps out FOSS projects, as if even just 1% of the users of such projects donated $1 each month that’d be able to make a good income,
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I do that for open-source videos games, I pay for the steam version to support the creators (Dwarf Fortress and Cataclysm : Dark Days Ahead for example). I'm totally fine with it, as long as it's a one-time fee, no subscription bullshit.
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It's great to donate if you can, but if you can't, then appreciate the public good that these programmers have done and don't feel guilty for using free software for free.
You can help in other ways. Spend a few hours marketing it. Or open feature requests or bug reports. If you can, contribute a new feature.
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Excluding really good software such as f-droid just because it somehow mentions cryptocurrency? Seems ridiculous
Seems, yes, but I've got my reasons: Money corrupts; bitcoin corrupts absolutely.
yeah, i'd understanding rejecting software promoting crypto, like brave, but rejecting apps for accepting crypto donations is kinda kinky fetish in my book, also if you cancel f-droid just because they allow crypto related apps you should ban whole distros for hosting crypto packages in heir repositories
Good article 👍
I like chiping in when I can. Now that I'm in college I can't spare too much. :(
you seems to be the kind of person who like the "pay your price" system
You mean the pay what you want strategy, right?
yes, or "give your price" i don't remember the exact name, probably different from every websites