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[-] graphito@sopuli.xyz 19 points 8 months ago

Although It's less about guns and more about paying/donating to projects on GPL. If you don't know where to donate, start with Firefox. Every £ matters

[-] daq@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 8 months ago

How exactly are you donating to Firefox? Mozilla foundation is not Firefox and Firefox is unlikely to see any money you give to Mozilla.

[-] Meowoem@sh.itjust.works 5 points 8 months ago

Mozilla do spend a lot of money on software development, 220 million last year, out of total expenses of 425 million which came from a taking of 593 million of which 81% comes from Google.

[-] daq@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 8 months ago

They need to introduce bounty system so people can give money for specific features.

As far as I'm concerned they only produce two useful pieces of software: Firefox and Thunderbird. The rest of the money is going into a black hole.

[-] Meowoem@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago

The rest of the money goes into fighting for software freedom, developing infrastructure tools and other things they're very open about.

Personally I don't donate because I prefer to help small open source efforts where a little money makes a big difference, especially protects which I believe could help emerging open source communities grow or inspire more cc content. I'm glad Mozilla exist and that they get so much money from Google and donations

[-] nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl 5 points 8 months ago

Every pound counts? That’s what she said

[-] Hiro8811@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

I was going to but I have no £

[-] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 4 points 8 months ago
[-] Hiro8811@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago
[-] TableCoffee@lemmy.ca 6 points 8 months ago

If I sell all my megalixers I've never used I could probably keep Firefox funded for years.

[-] mack7400@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

Stanley nickels?

[-] Emerald@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago
[-] Hiro8811@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Nope, sorry mate

[-] smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

For preserving GPL let me suggest donating to Software Freedom Conservancy which is directly related to fighting abuses of open source / free software / libre software licences.

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