Good point: there is plenty of software where people have no issues with buying a new licence every couple of years,
Compare that to (in my case) sixteen years of happy VLC usage across many different computers and phones, and it's obvious that I have some donations to catch up on!
I naively thought free projects were as resistant as VLC when it comes to manipulation for the sake of money, but big and even often cheered ones gave in.
A bad business model can be worse than having none.
It seems that it's up to the content owners as to how much they would want to enable.
https://help.vimeo.com/hc/en-us/articles/235694348-How-to-bu...
"When you buy a VOD, you will be able to stream its videos for as long as they remain on Vimeo. If the seller allows, you will also be able to download the videos to your computer and devices, DRM-free."
https://www.gnupg.org/donate/index.html (though they are at ~€5k/month now?)
http://www.openbsdfoundation.org/campaign2018.html http://www.openbsdfoundation.org/donations.html
I tried to get OpenBSD added to our companies system awhile back but the group that manages that process said they did not get a response from the OpenBSD group when they reached out to them to get a bit of information.
I can (and do) donate outside of my companies process, but they are missing out on additional money.