If I were paid at the same rate I was at my job for writing my open source software, I’d probably be making six figures. So I’m going to say that I donate over $10,000 worth of my time every month to open source projects. xD

I’m a god damn philanthropist! If only the IRS took my word for it.

Zero and I feel bad about it.

In (very partial) mitigation, I regularly contribute bug reports and other detailed feedback on lots of issue trackers.

Here’s the fundamental problem. I benefit from a whole bunch of FOSS projects. I absolutely cannot afford to donate 5 USD to each one per month. Even donating $1 to each would be unaffordable - and of course that makes no sense because of the fees problem. It’s the same problem with podcasts, and indeed basically all internet content.

We have to find a way to make non-DRM micropayments work better. It’s the only alternative to the poisonous ad-based information economy. I so want a solution like Flattr to become widely adopted. That is: I decide a cap on my monthly donation total, and then that sum is divided up among the projects I choose according to criteria I choose.

5 Euros per month to Signal.

My company does one day of work on Foss software each month to honor what the community does for us. We use nearly exclusively Foss software. My employees can freely choose which projects they support or what apps they build with that time. But usually they end up building or fixing something thats helping them with the job they are doing for a client or has annoyed them during that time.

Edit: everything be build, we publish under MIT license.

Edit 2: we are 4 people, I’m the only full time employee.

~$10/mo currently but since I recently switched to Linux, and it’s working very well for me, I feel like upping it a little.

I’ve long considered donating to Mozilla since Firefox is by far my most used open source software. But they don’t seem to lack money. So, huh.

I haven’t counted but it’s more than 10 for sure. Kinda hard to calculate the proprietary software since I pay for it yearly but it’s more than the open source for sure. Usually don’t buy games but when I do, I try to spend at most 10 bucks per game

I donate $10 each to the EFF and FSF. I’m not sure whether the money to the latter goes to development or advocacy, and don’t mind either way.

…at least, I think I do. I should double-check that they haven’t lapsed without me noticing.

I very rarely buy software, and when I do it’s games bought on deep discount. I honestly don’t think I’ve willingly paid for a proprietary non-game application since Windows 95 (in 1995, when I was a kid and didn’t know better).

If I had to distribute money based on timeshare, Minecraft would get 49.5%, Cities Skylines would get 49.5%, and all the other programs would be left to fight for the scraps because I play those games like it was a full time job.

People answering in $ as if we all have the same wealth and income.

Anti-libre software: 0%

Per month, zero.

After a few donations that eventually turned into mandatory subscriptions I only pay for finished products now.

I’m not paying you to beta test your project for you!

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At least a couple of dollars one time donation if I used the software for some time. If it is very useful software for me I donate more often. I try to avoid proprietary software for ideological reasons, so can’t really compare for this reason.

This might be kinda long, not sure if it’s what you’re looking for. But here goes.

For the last 20 years I have been largely in the Apple ecosystem and enjoy paying for good software whether closed or OSS. Started the career I have today thanks to the indie Apple software scene and the iPhone’s launch. I probably have more app licenses and subscriptions than your average person, I suspect largely for closed source apps (Things 3, Ivory for Mastodon, Affinity Photo/Designer suite, Procreate, Pixaki, etc.). I despise ads, so I also pay for things like Apple Music, YouTube Premium, and even Twitch Turbo because I use the hell out of YouTube (and Twitch to a lesser extent).

I’m also a gamer and I’ve moved from Xbox, to PlayStation, and now 100% on PC, Steam, and Steam Deck. Have bought plenty of games, DLCs, and IAPs for stuff like cosmetics. I know, I’m the worst.

Since I got serious on Mastodon in 2019, I have started seeking out OSS for certain things. I donate small amounts monthly to both the main Mastodon project and to the two instances I use (toot.cafe and mstdn.games). I just started donating a couple bucks monthly to the Lemmy.world Ko-Fi, which I believe supports their other projects (which I haven’t started using).

Edit: I pay Masto $20/year and I think $1/month to each of the instances.

While I have gotten angrier about the state of where tech and even Apple have started going, I’m not sure if a Linux PC and home-brewing my own kernels and writing all my own apps is anywhere in my future (yes, I know Steam Deck is Linux). I might be open to exploring a Linux PC eventually, but I’m also at a tricky point in my life where I need to find a new career path sooner than later, and tossing a full platform shift into the mix would, pragmatically, do more harm than good. But I have definitely started leaning more socialist in my politics and personal preferences for supporting communities and software. I’m donating where I can.

I don’t play computer games and I rarely buy commercial software of any other kind. The majority of my computer time is spent using FOSS applications. I try to give at least a few dollars every month toward each tool that I use on a regular basis. Among other things, I contribute to Lemmy, Voyager, and the Lemmy.Ca site. Overall it amounts to supporting more than a dozen projects for a total of around $50 per month.

I wish I could afford to do more, but I try to do what I can. Some projects are part-time and some make up the primary income for the developers. All of them are contributing their time without demanding payment to make our lives better. They deserve our support, in whatever form we can give it.

It probably evens out to ~$20 usd/month between recurring donations and one time random donations to the internet archive, wikipedia and some specific open source contributors. Gaming for me is usually 1-2 new games a year so likely similar in cost.

I donate $5/month to lemmy, and am considering doing more for the other important projects out there.

The open source community is one of the most important anchors in our modern society, not only do we as every day people benefit, but communities like npm, gradle, pip, etc all benefit the financial system greatly. We do not do enough.