cross-posted from: https://jlai.lu/post/18447177

This year, I gave 10 euros to Libre Office

https://www.libreoffice.org/

I gave 5 euros to VLC

https://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html

I gave 5 euros to Qbittorent

https://www.qbittorrent.org/

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.

  • SayCyberOnceMore@feddit.ukEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Totally agree - this is one of very few reasons where I’m happy to setup a “subscription” (ie just regular payments on my terms)

    But not just throwing some cash at them expecting them to do it all, I also contribute back, ie Arch Wiki, project documentation, forums, (usable) bug reports, etc.