donate 10 dollars, then deal with 5 years of constant email harassment for more money, despite saying they wont harass you for more money cough wikipedia cough
Wikipedia is proprietary not FOSS.
Sorry what? Wikipedia is running MediaWiki, which is fully open source.
wait what
Hey, random question here. Is there a project or a website where you can specify your Foss projects which you want to give money to and how much and you only have one payment? In my head I think it would be cool if I could split 50 euros in percent or something like this and target my favorite 20 projects. Obviously this project or website should and must be secure and trustworthy.
I think thanks.dev can do this, it’s more designed around donating to dependencies of your own projects, but you can manually specify other projects.
Made my first round of donations to FOSS projects last weekend!
Support the people doing the work that benefits you.
I have about €10 in Proprietary software purchases, and €1500 in donations to FOSS projects.
Would you accept sloppy mouth kisses from a basset hound in the form of thanks? Because though I am not affiliated with any foss project, I am affiliated with some charitable corporations and this makes my soul happy. And my neighbor’s basset hound is really cute.
Yes I will accept kisses.
This is the way
I have nothing against paying for quality software even if it’s not open-source. I pay for Plex, Symfonium (Android) and Kagi. What I hate is yet another subscription for terribly software.
I mean, I proudly wired 100 euros to Graphene simply because how awesome it is.
Buying
$10$1000 Proprietary SoftwareDonating $10 to FOSS SoftwareSubscribing to the FOSS Software Patron Tier for $10/moInsert the super fancy Tux for donating more for the FOSS than you would have paid for the proprietary software 🤴
And the mind explosion Tux for donating to a project you don’t (yet? or ever?) use but want to see developed anyway.
One software please
I know this is super weird but, I kinda like seeing a buy button on stuff like “elementaryOS” or “Zorin OS”, its essentially just an donation, but I think especially for normal people its that extra “professionalism” which makes it looks like yet another “normal” OS to consider.
I donate to the most important projects out there: Servo, PostmarketOS, F-Droid, Signal (from time to time).
What’s “Servo”? Searching all I find are, well, servos lol
New, open source rendering engine. It’s our best chance at getting multiplatform, web based apps that don’t depend on Apple or Microsoft. Hopefully also new web browser that can be an alternative to Firefox.
In case you haven’t already explored existing browser alternatives, Qutebrowser is a keyboard-driven browser that can be infinitely extended as it is written in Python and you have full access to the browser API (including the low-level internals) in your configuration file. You can import any Python modules you need, and it has native support for ad blocker lists + userscripts (Greasemonkey et al).
Alright that sounds cool!
Wikipedia? It’s not software but worth donating to.
there’s also the Internet Archive if one’s looking for something to donate to :)
That is an excellent place to sonate, that ans FUTO.
SO important. They’re always under some kind of attack, and they’re pretty much the most accessible way we have to access a web that keeps disappearing and getting replaced.
I donated couple of times. Aren’t they doing really well financially? If they will put the big banner asking for money again I will give again :)
I’m also subscribing local newspaper even though the amount of trackers they have is ridiculous and The Guardian. Good journalism is also very important.
Wikipedia itself is doing fine but they have a bunch of super interesting side projects that they don’t advertise much, and aren’t doing as well. Wikinews, their news site is shutting down: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/Single/2026-03-31#News_and_notes (this is really close to april fools hopefully I didn’t eat the onion. Or hopefully I did?).
My favorite is wikibooks: http://wikibooks.org/ , which are open source texbooks that can be edited wikipedia style. Their programming one’s are really high quality. The idea behind those is that you can export a known good frozen version of them, as a texbook for a class. Related is also wikiversity, which is course curriculum. It’s similar, but different.
But they also have a travel voyage, wikivoyage, and more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikimedia_sister_projects
I just need a way to spend money so the banner goes away.
I’ve given more to FOSS projects in the last year since ditching with does than I gave Microsoft in the 20 before it.
Same, I’ve paid/donated far more for my FOSS than I ever did for proprietary software.
I wanna suck that pangwin’s cock
Oh my gods bilb you can’t just sexualize a pangwins cock anymore you have to ask permission
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I donate to Codeberg and do kofi to linux content creators (many of whom have been a life saver) and whatever random neat FOSS CLI or TUI I come across. I also donate to dnkl who is the dev of Foot and Fuzzel.
If it’s something I like and I use daily then I donate.
