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Ask HN: What projects do you donate to?

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Re: Ask HN: What projects do you donate to?

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Post by giancarlostoro »

I have no issue with projects asking for donation, its all in how you do it though. Do not do it in a way that interferes with my work. Do not make nagware essentially. If your MSI installer has a donate button at the bottom for the entire install flow, cool. If your APT package has links at the end, cool. If your --about has it, cool if your --version has it cool, or in your Help->About menu option, cool. If you change the behavior of your program for "intermissions" that's just wrong and you should feel bad.

The other worse offender is projects like MinIO that removed over 100k lines, to push everyone towards "Pro" which costs 75 thousand a year. What? You had it in the previous version, 100% for free.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44095612

Re: Ask HN: What projects do you donate to?

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Post by evantbyrne »

p1dda wrote: post #213

People donating should do some research about charity fraud, it's extremely common today

I grew up in a household with a professional fundraiser, so I always look up financials of nonprofits before giving or volunteering. It's shocking just how many are passive income schemes for the wealthy.

Re: Ask HN: What projects do you donate to?

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Post by zuhsetaqi »

miki123211 wrote: post #193

The only software project I donate to is NVDA[1]. It's an open source screen reader, AKA software that makes it possible for the blind to use computers through synthesized speech. It's one of the few open source projects (besides Blender and GIMP) that is used directly by non-technical end-users and that has managed to surpass its commercial brethren , both in features and popularity. This is partly due to its extrem…

> It's one of the few open source projects (besides Blender and GIMP) that is used directly by non-technical end-users and that has managed to surpass its commercial brethren , both in features and popularity.

Since when has GIMP surpassed its commercial brethren?

Re: Ask HN: What projects do you donate to?

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Post by dinga »

miki123211 wrote: post #193

The only software project I donate to is NVDA[1]. It's an open source screen reader, AKA software that makes it possible for the blind to use computers through synthesized speech. It's one of the few open source projects (besides Blender and GIMP) that is used directly by non-technical end-users and that has managed to surpass its commercial brethren , both in features and popularity. This is partly due to its extrem…

Yes, I've also donated to NVDA... I use interactive-brokers to donate. Which apps do you use?

Re: Ask HN: What projects do you donate to?

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Post by zozbot234 »

alberto-m wrote: post #202
randomstate wrote: post #184

Earlier quoted context omitted.

AFAIK given Wikipedia spending they have ~1.5years of runway. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Fundraising_statisti...

They will have ~1.5 years of runway forever, since the Foundation tries to spend away any money it receives to justify pressing increasingly aggressive fundraisers. The site offers the same service as 15 years ago while ingesting 10x more money, none of which goes to the content producers. More info here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/Wikipedia_has_C...

There's been a ton of development in Wikipedia "sister projects", all of which ultimately benefit Wikipedia itself and the free content ecosystem more broadly. It makes no sense to say that "they provide the same thing as 15 years ago".
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