cross-posted from: https://jlai.lu/post/18447177
This year, I gave 10 euros to Libre Office
I gave 5 euros to VLC
https://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html
I gave 5 euros to Qbittorent
I come from a low-income country. Europeans can afford to give much more.
Last year, the CEO of Adobe earned 20 million dollars. He only travels in an armored SUV with bodyguards. He has been described as completely obsessed about money and power. If he could get away with it, he would murder open source developers.
With very limited ressources, Inkscape, Krita, Gimp, Kdenlive are doing fantastic work, offering alternatives to Adobe.
Please support open source software. You don’t have to spend fortunes. Just adopt one software.
I particularly like what you said about supporting one thing. One is better than none and there is nothing to stop you from supporting more developers later. Just pick something that gives you utility, a project that you think is undervalued, or a friend’s project. Also, send the devs some encouragement on Mastadon or wherever they keep a public presence.:)