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Do you donate to FOSS projects? (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago* by to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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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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[–] 4 points 2 years ago (10 children)

Have considered this but i have not yet started looking up anonymous ways to donate. Suggestions where i could start - eg how to anonymize credit card information online? If not anonymize, minimize personal info at least?

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    You could use the cryptocurrency Monero. It’s specifically made to be anonymous.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    You can't really anonymously use a credit card. Privacy.com will let you give bogus info to the FOSS project if you really don't trust the devs having your name, but you'll have to give Privacy a bunch of info which is arguably an even bigger invasion of privacy. I suppose it's a matter of who you trust.

    Most donations will go through an intermediary like PayPal so it's not like you're giving them your credit card info directly.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    How about bank account that generate cards for you ? Then you can destroy it online

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    FOSS s such a wide area of practice. There is no detriment in supporting a FOSS keyboard or image editor. Perhaps for these, or for software that might sails across the lines you might consider Monero, or similar.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    i was thinking of donating to the projects i use a lot - inkscape and kdenlive. thanks for suggesting Monero, which was also suggested by another user. unfortunately, i dont have cryptocurrency. maybe i will just use cc for these donations.

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