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de Bernd 2025-12-04 06:25:51 No. 28071
Which free and open source software would you donate money to, because you find it useful?
What would have the biggest impact? I know almost nothing about this but if I spend a 100€ I'd want it to have the best downstream effect so I would think donating to the Linux foundation would have the biggest impact because so many other open and closed source projects benefit from it.
None because I'm a freeloader
>>28078 For sure not the Linux Foundation. They represent what the constituent megacorporations want out of Linux. They don't even care if their members violate the GPL because their interest isn't what the "Linux ecosystem" wants, but what their corporate members want. I think it's best to donate to small organizations where a little money goes a long way. Mozilla is doing good work, but they have hundreds of millions. KDE is doing good work, and they don't have a lot of money. I have worked on KDE so I'm biased
https://ladybird.org/ - a bit disappointing that they're planning on using Swift, but seems the most promising of the non-Google or Mozilla browser alternatives.
>>28105 >I have worked on KDE so I'm biased Noice! Thank you and the KDE team for hard and great work! I'm more of a XFCE guy but I like it on my Steam Deck and Bazzite machine.
thunderbird and android (commercial software) are the only ones of those that i use
>>28184 You're not limited to the FOSS of that pic
Some FOSS software I like to use and would donate to: uBlock Origin (sadly the developer doesn't accept donations) mpv VLC yt-dlp ffmpeg Linux Mint Tubular
I would donate to mozilla even though I hate them.
The fact that gimp became some kind of standard graphics editor for Linux distros is insane, it shows that people never use gimp, gimp is horrible, the interface is terrible and I remember testing it for the printing industry around 2015 and not even its black and white was accurate (the color and tone accuracy of gimp is lacking). Krita is way better.