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Re:Give nothing, expect nothing: Gitlab latest punching bag ... by nerdponx on Thursday August 11, 2022 @08:20AM (#32424593)
Many FOSS projects are also or largely used by businesses, which sometimes turn a big profit as a result, and which don't contribute even a pittance back to the software they use. It's hard to be motivated to donate to such projects as an individual.
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Re:Give nothing, expect nothing: Gitlab latest punching bag ... by MaxBarraclough on Thursday August 11, 2022 @04:30PM (#32431328)
If a project benefits you, it's worth supporting, whether or not large companies are doing so. If anything I'd flip the argument round: your support is most needed when large companies don't pull their weight. OpenJDK and the Linux kernel don't need your donation.

Also, there are plenty of good FOSS projects that aren't seeing much corporate use, such as perhaps KDE.

(Although Google are known for using Linux as a desktop OS, perhaps including KDE, I'm not certain.)

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