cross-posted from: https://jlai.lu/post/18447177

This year, I gave 10 euros to Libre Office

https://www.libreoffice.org/

I gave 5 euros to VLC

https://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html

I gave 5 euros to Qbittorent

https://www.qbittorrent.org/

I come from a low-income country. Europeans can afford to give much more.

Last year, the CEO of Adobe earned 20 million dollars. He only travels in an armored SUV with bodyguards. He has been described as completely obsessed about money and power. If he could get away with it, he would murder open source developers.

With very limited ressources, Inkscape, Krita, Gimp, Kdenlive are doing fantastic work, offering alternatives to Adobe.

Please support open source software. You don’t have to spend fortunes. Just adopt one software.

  • SayCyberOnceMore@feddit.ukEnglish
    2·
    16 hours ago

    Totally agree - this is one of very few reasons where I’m happy to setup a “subscription” (ie just regular payments on my terms)

    But not just throwing some cash at them expecting them to do it all, I also contribute back, ie Arch Wiki, project documentation, forums, (usable) bug reports, etc.

  • atro_city@fedia.io
    121·
    1 day ago

    I donate more for opensource software than I ever would’ve paid for proprietary software - and I’ll keep doing it as long as I can. Opensource could supplant proprietary software if people donated instead of giving money to shit companies like Adobe. This video (1 billion dollars for opensource)convinced me how much opensource is worth and how much more it should be getting

  • macniel@feddit.org
    7·
    1 day ago

    Last year, the CEO of Adobe earned 20 million dollars. He only travels in an armored SUV with bodyguards.

    for real O.o?

    I’m monthly donate to the Lemmy Project and my home instance provider (fediverse.foundation) and my mastodon instance (norden.social) So not that big on supporting open source software development but open source infrastructure.

  • Kualdir@feddit.nl
    5·
    1 day ago

    I’m currently not what I’d call financially stable seeing as I don’t know how much my move is gonna cost. But I put some money towards VLC and once my finances are stable again in the summer I’ll look into supporting more open source stuff that I’m using. Thanks for the reminder

  • njordomir@lemmy.world
    3·
    1 day ago

    I particularly like what you said about supporting one thing. One is better than none and there is nothing to stop you from supporting more developers later. Just pick something that gives you utility, a project that you think is undervalued, or a friend’s project. Also, send the devs some encouragement on Mastadon or wherever they keep a public presence.:)