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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by CriticalMiss@lemmy.world to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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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[-] hperrin@lemmy.world 43 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Sentau@feddit.de 27 points 1 year ago

Yes it counts and more than monetary contributions do

[-] omnissiah@iusearchlinux.fyi 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

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