I never ever donated to Wikipedia, I thought, heck, they are famous enough I am pretty sure they won't go out of business anytime soon and I was right https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Fundraising_statistics. Wikipedia raised about 5M dollars per years from 2016-2021. According to them, it's to "act as a permanent safekeeping fund to generate income to ensure a base level of support for the Wikimedia projects in perpetuity." -Wiki
What do you think of that? I mean, I don't think they need that much to have a financially secure future, do you? I mean, I don't know how they spend it. Most open source projects don't have that kind of cash-flow.
I understand we live in an ecosystem, so if you don’t feed it it’s going to wither. Passion projects only go so far.
exactly!
A lot of projects accept crypto donations, which is great, even if you don’t have a lot of money, you can donate a tiny amount of money to each project you use. To both get you in the habit of appreciating your creators, but also to let them know they have an engaged user base. Yeah you might donate a penny. If you can’t afford anything. That’s fine. But it demonstrates your participation which is important.
I like this idea, I might just skip a turn of unhealthy (but tasty) food and pay them to one creator! Good idea!
I look forward to be someone like you dude! seriously! I want to do everything you are doing, not out of compulsion but as a form of gratitude, as a thank you!
someone has to bear the voluntary burden to make the service better for everyone else. It's somewhat of an act of charity, but you are getting a great service you can trust in return for that. And Protonmail/VPN people have proved that they deserve the trust that's entrusted on them unlike most others.
how do you do this? I use Linux btw