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Discussion: Do you donate financially to any OSS projects? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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If so, how do you choose which ones to donate to? Do you prefer regular or recurring donations? What payment methods do you like to use?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yes, a few. Signal (daily use), LetsEncrypt & Certbot (EFF). It's not enough.

One day I decided I'd spend $x every January (when I do all my other donations) on open source stuff I depend on, and roughly in the proportions I depend on them. It quickly became impossible - I can't just fund Debian (which I use a lot of in VMs), I'd need to think of all their dependencies, same with NGINX, Node etc etc. The mind boggles.

I need something like a Spotify subscription for open source to assuage my guilt of the great value I extract for my personal use of open source.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

I need something like a Spotify subscription for open source to assuage my guilt of the great value I extract for my personal use of open source.

I would love to see something like this, where I can contribute to an open source project while also contributing to all their dependencies. Maybe such a thing exists and I just haven't heard of it yet.