Discussion: Do you donate financially to any OSS projects?
Discussion: Do you donate financially to any OSS projects?
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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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.
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.