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I agree with both your point and with @winnyace’s point.

Donating to Mozilla is kind of similar to donating to Ubuntu or Red Hat. They don’t need it right now.

But if you use something that is entirely based on one of those projects, especially if all the users of such a project donate to it, then they would have all they need.

In the case of Mozilla, they could say “no” to any of Google’s terms.

In my WIP thread, I briefly mention how important it is to fund the development of the FOSS apps we use. I haven’t updated the online thread in a while, but I have been adding to it, including this:

My list of projects I currently fund or plan to fund:

Liberapay

  • Syncthing > $1.18 monthly / $12 yearly
  • The Document Foundation > $1.08 monthly / $12 yearly
  • Gimp/GTK > $1.19 monthly / $12 yearly
  • Keepass + XC|DX > $1.18|$1.18 monthly / $24 yearly
  • Liberapay > $1.08 monthly / $12 yearly

Patreon, Ko-fi, Buy Me A Coffee

  • Mastodon > $1 monthly
  • Archcraft (Customised WM Purchase / Monthly Donation) > $11.80 yearly / $5 every 4 months
  • Linux Mint Team (Cinnamon|Timeshift|Nemo) > $5 quarterly / $1 monthly via PayPal
  • FluffyChat/Matrix > $3+ every 4 months

PayPal Direct

  • Krita/KDE > $1 / $5.80 monthly
  • Blender (Donation/Subscription) > $5 every 4 months
  • FUTO Voice Input > $7 lifetime / $1 monthly? → Or find something that is actually open source instead?
  • Transcribro!!! → For speech to text!!! Fully open source!
  • Thunderbird > $5 monthly every 4 months
  • Mozilla/Firefox > $5 every 4 months

Others

  • BeeRef > pending

This adds up to a minimum total of: $14+ USD monthly / $168+ USD yearly

There are others that I would like to fund, but cannot, either because there is no donation link provided by the devs or the payment method is not something I can use (like crypto), or I’m not willing to use (like adding my card info to yet another site).

An Important Note:

There is no need for much more than $12 per year for most apps/services you use. If everyone else donates, $12 is more than enough. Do your part by informing others. No need to strain your pockets. You alone can’t make all the difference, unless you’re filthy rich.

A quick example:

Krita very likely has well over 100,000 users. However, they only receive about $3,000 USD in donations monthly, YET, look at how much they are doing with only $3,000 USD.

Now, imagine that all the users were doing their part and what it would mean for the industry Krita is part of, including the devs who work on it.

Reference: https://fund.krita.org/
And: https://krita-artists.org/t/krita-usage-statistics/29184

So, think of the apps you use regularly, including your distro(s), and think of how much you can budget for them either monthly (recommended) or yearly. You can fund specific apps/services/distros (Krita, Mastodon, Archcraft, etc.) or entire software ecosystems (KDE, ActivityPub, The Open Source Initiative, etc.).

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