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   Felix Urbasik (fell@ma.fellr.net)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 01:10:35 JST Felix Urbasik

   • Liberapay
   • Open Collective

   I started regularly donating about a year ago. I am now supporting 8 different projects with 20,77€ per month, and it didn't hurt at all.

   Why pay for something free? Because free software only exists because other people already paid for it. Someone has to do it. It's time to do your part!

   If you can afford a subscription service, then you probably can afford a little donation, too. Start with 0.1% of your income.

   Check out @Liberapay or @opencollective

   #FOSS #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #Linux

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     ikt 🇺🇦 (ikt@fosstodon.org)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 20:03:04 JST ikt 🇺🇦

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     • Open Collective

     @fell @Liberapay @opencollective I would but at the moment I donate to https://www.andysplace.org.au/ which provides food for the homeless and https://savelife.in.ua/en/ which helps Ukraine fight Russia.

     To think if house prices weren't absurd and Russia didn't invade Ukraine I could be donating to a lot of other places instead.

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     Felix Urbasik (fell@ma.fellr.net)'s status on Sunday, 10-Nov-2024 05:58:56 JST Felix Urbasik

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     • Godot Engine :godot:
     • Blender
     • Kodi ✅

     There are so many projects I forgot to include in this graphic! There are also @Blender, @Kodi, @gotosocial and @godotengine only to name a few. Although I haven't checked if all of them accept donations. Maybe I'll make an updated version of the graphic soon.

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     Martijn 🇪🇺 (chaosmonkey@masto.ai)'s status on Sunday, 10-Nov-2024 06:00:16 JST Martijn 🇪🇺

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     • Open Collective

     @fell @Liberapay @opencollective And for the love of god, please don't just donate to the big names in Open Source!

     Sure they can use the money, but so can that lone developer of that small project that makes your life just a little better.

     So if you're using a smaller open source project that you like, check if they have an option to support them financially.

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     she hacked you (ekis@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 11-Nov-2024 02:38:52 JST she hacked you

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     • Open Collective

     @fell @Liberapay @opencollective Why pay these companies when you could just pay me to pirate things for you, and write open-source software?

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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 11-Nov-2024 08:59:15 JST 翠星石

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     • Liberapay
     • Open Collective
     @fell @Liberapay @opencollective Free software exists because some people love freedom, rather than anything to do with money and generally copies are gratis because it costs like $0.0000001 to send a copy.
     
     Devian, Arch, PostmarketOS, f-droid and "librepay" don't distribute only free software unfortunately.
     
     
     Generally I'm happy to donate to free software projects with something freedom-respecting like Monero or whatever, but projects want me to run proprietary software to donate?