On Thu, Aug 07 2025, Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> wrote: > * 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. some say that GNOME is mostly funded by RedHat and IBM, but, I’m not sure about this. Anyway, I’m not so much happy about the decisions the new RadHat was making in recent years. I’d not like that company to be the main sponsor of Gnome. Besides, I think the recent decisions Gnome has made was not so much user-friendly either. > 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. Sure. In my mind, buying free software with an emphasis on ‘it being a free/libre product’ has similarities to donation. Perhaps, it’s even better than donation, I don’t know. […8L…] > 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. Indeed, no objection. -- English is not my native/mother language. I can read and understand English well, but I have problems expressing my thoughts in it. Please, bear with me. Sincerely, Pyromania. PGP fingerprint = 2B24 291E 0637 4D2E 0D14 9EFC D7B3 10D4 5C9D 5892 () ASCII ribbon campaign - against HTML e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments --- via emacs-tangents mailing list (https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-tangents)
