{"id":3165,"date":"2016-02-02T16:41:35","date_gmt":"2016-02-02T08:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=3165"},"modified":"2016-02-02T16:41:35","modified_gmt":"2016-02-02T08:41:35","slug":"donating-to-an-opensource-project-when-you-download-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2016\/02\/02\/donating-to-an-opensource-project-when-you-download-it","title":{"rendered":"Donating to an opensource project when you download it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently I\u2019ve always thought that donating to opensource software that you use would be a good idea \u2013 I found this about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2010\/05\/10\/donating-to-firefox-add-ons\">Firefox add-ons<\/a>. I <a href=\"https:\/\/lists.launchpad.net\/maria-discuss\/msg03083.html\">suggested<\/a> that the MariaDB Foundation\u00a0do this for downloads to the\u00a0MariaDB Server, and it looks like most people seem to think that it is an <a href=\"https:\/\/lists.launchpad.net\/maria-discuss\/msg03089.html\">OK<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/lists.launchpad.net\/maria-discuss\/msg03084.html\">thing<\/a> to do.<\/p>\n<p>I see it being done with Ubuntu, LibreOffice, and more recently: <a href=\"https:\/\/elementary.io\/\">elementary OS<\/a>. The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.elementary.io\/post\/110645528530\/payments\">reasoning<\/a>\u00a0seems sound, though there was some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infoworld.com\/article\/2883114\/should-you-pay-for-elementary-os.html\">controversy<\/a> before they changed the language of the post. Though I\u2019m not sure that I\u2019d force the $0 figure.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For something like\u00a0MariaDB Server, this is mostly going to probably hit Microsoft Windows users; Linux users have repositories configured or use it from their distribution of choice!\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20Donating%20to%20an%20opensource%20project%20when%20you%20download%20it&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2016%2F02%2F02%2Fdonating-to-an-opensource-project-when-you-download-it&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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I suggested that the MariaDB Foundation\u00a0do this for downloads to the\u00a0MariaDB Server, and it looks like most people seem to think that it is an OK thing to do. 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