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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~~ 40 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 probably murder open source developers to send a warning.

Are you happy that people and companies from your community are wiring money to Microsoft for the privilege to use Word™ and Excel™ ?

Are you happy that people and companies in your community are wiring money to Adobe for the privilege to use Premiere Pro™ and Photoshop™ ?

This is money leaving your country. For what?

Please support open source software developers.

With extremely limited ressources, Inkscape, Krita, Gimp, Kdenlive are doing fantastic work, offering free quality alternatives. These volunteer developers are really doing the best they can.

You don't have to donate fortunes. You could simply adopt 1 software.

If I can do it, so can you.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago

Liberapay is a good way to regularly give to open projects with out having to remember to go back to a project page. A european equivalent to patreon for FOSS projects and creators.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

Oui, J’aime Peertube aussi!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

And Matrix, they're running out of money to fund the development of their awesome software and spec.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

You are absolutely right and you took me in speed, because I had planed - starting from June - to donate every month about €50 to different opensource projects I’m using. So maybe 5x€10 or 10x€5, I’m not sure yet. It will not be a big financial effort for me, because I just cancelled a US based subscription for that same amount/month.