* Pyromania <pyroma...@disroot.org> [2025-08-07 19:43]: > I want to add that, I hope to see more donation based things. I guess > FSF is one example, right?
Here are 5 well-known donation-based free software projects: 1. FSF (Free Software Foundation) – Promotes software freedom, funded by individual donations. 2. GNOME Foundation – Supports the GNOME desktop; funded by donations and sponsors. 3. KDE e.V. – Maintains the KDE environment, runs donation campaigns. 4. Blender Foundation – Funds development of the Blender 3D suite via donations and the Development Fund. 5. Mozilla Foundationp – While Firefox has some corporate funding, a large part comes from individual donations supporting open web tech. > I guess, a donation based economic system would be the most ethical > economical system. But it never was easy to achieve. How do I > know? I’m not an economist. Totally fair — a donation-based system sounds noble, but let’s not forget: Selling free software is 100% ethical. The freedom is in the license, not the price tag. - You’re free to run, study, modify, and share — whether you got the software for free or paid a developer for their time and expertise. - Developers need to eat. Rent isn’t libre. Selling services, support, custom features, or even the software itself is not selling out — it’s sustainable freedom. So sure, donations are nice… but being paid to write ethical software is even nicer — and it keeps the lights on without compromising the values. That’s not capitalism corrupting free software — that’s freedom doing business. Jean Louis --- via emacs-tangents mailing list (https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-tangents)
