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A while ago I set up Ubuntu on my partner's laptop - no not dual boot. All she needed to get to work were Firefox, Thunderbird and OpenOffice. I explained the concept of open source software to her. After a few days she was impressed (and happy - whew) and suggested that we should consider a monetary donation. We have allocated a small sum toward this.
I have been working on a Joomla based website for my walking club. A couple of the tools that actually make the whole thing possible are not only very good but entirely open source and very well supported - amazing. Again I will suggest our club makes a small contribution toward these.
How do others approach this question?
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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As I a developer I more in the line to contribute code...
I have lines in FreeType, Cairo, Mono, jQuery UI, GIMP. I also make my tools free (not really open source, but the source is available)...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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That's a tough question that's in debate at the moment. Personally, I feel if you benefit from an open source project and have the spare money to contribute (no, yachts don't count as "necessities") you should.
modified 1-Feb-17 14:34pm.
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Normally I prefer the "donate" method if offered, I've no problems giving 5/10 bucks if getting something that would normally cost 10 - 100 times as much from a large company. If the author gets rich all the power to them - still getting something at a fraction of the commercial price and helping a fellow dev (i.e. not some 'suit' in an ivory tower) get along.
Except for microsoft, I repay for their good free apps (i.e. visual studio) with free advice and helpful referrals of their paid products; good advice like 'w10 sucks, bring back the proper menu & desktop' and 'office is OK but it's still a bloated pig.'
Sin tack ear lol
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If I am working on a project that I am getting paid for, I always spread the largess, but if it is a personal 'this would be fun to write' project (of which I have a couple) then no.
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Wait until they make a change that is not backwards compatible and breaks everything...you'll be wanting your money back.
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I am indeed very willing to contribute a few quid to tools/apps I like and find useful, but they have to make it easy for me (a paypal button, at the very least), and not nag me for money.
Although there was one nag that I did appreciate, a few weeks back. I forget which app it was, now, but I think it might have been DexPot, that popped up a dialog pointing out that the app had been installed on the machine for a year (so there was no "phoning home" involved), and that they'd be happy if I wanted to give them a bob or two, but it was perfectly OK if I didn't, as long as I enjoyed using it.
I know it was an app or tool that I use a lot (e.g. DexPot is invaluable on laptops), and I liked the way they asked, so I clicked the paypal button.
If I hadn't liked the way they'd asked, I'd probably be using something else, by now -- good customer service often outweighs good product.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: a paypal button, at the very least), and not nag me for money
Yes I agree. The Paypal option is essential for us as we're not prepared to go any other way.
Mark_Wallace wrote: hat popped up a dialog
I don't mind the occasional beg. Fair enough.
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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I think that could be a good candidate for our Free Tools forum. 
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Is it not already there? It really ought to be.
I'll try to find some time, at the week-end, to go through the free stuff I find most useful, and check to see if it's listed.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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my fast search didn't find it.
Mark_Wallace wrote: to go through the free stuff I find most useful, and check to see if it's listed.
cool  Thank you
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Every once in a while. Usually 1-5€. There have been cases where I have donated multiple times. Usually small projects and tools that I regularly reuse.
Those gems that I come back to ever so often. I'd like to think that it helps the devs of the software to feel appreciated.
Not really open source but every so often I drop a small donation towards Dwarf Fortress as I come back every 6 months or so to play it again and again.
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Yes, mine.
I've donated to Synergy, probably a couple others I can't remember.
Marc
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I dunno if it's JIRA or what...
But I was willing to use Edge at work for work stuff (i.e JIRA), and when I try to copy a JIRA Url... Well the key word here is "try", it never works, browser freezes, the url drop down open and attempt to refrseh, I can't copy...
There is no copy option either, just paste....
Piece of f***ing sh*t is driving me insane!!!
Back to sanity, and Chrome!
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I had to use Edge today to download a Minecraft mod from Curseforge as FF just freezes up on that one download. I don't know why.
IE failed to load the page (no big surprise there), so Edge was the only other option I have installed (I don't have Chrome installed ATM, did a refresh recently and haven't reinstalled it).
Edge worked perfectly.
Edge/IE are also needed to download from Codeplex, as Google's Malicious site database (used by FF) has it listed as a malicious site.
It's just one single page, but Google's system apparently only supports full domain blocks, which IMHO is a pretty major design flaw.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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I have a DigitalOcean droplet running Debian. When you log in you launch a window in your browser which brings up a terminal console so you can do your work.
Very oddly, from home there were huge lags doing any commands in Chrome.
I always use Chrome for everything.
I'd type the command and then wait about 7 seconds before the cursor would even blink.
I decided to try Edge.
All the commands ran as if I were locally running the terminal window.
Switching back to Chrome and trying it again to test it showed that it was still extremely slow.
That's the only app I've ever seen where Chrome failed and Edge fixed it.
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Super Lloyd wrote: There is no copy option either, just paste....
Sandboxed testing, if it works they will deploy this everywhere.
Sin tack ear lol
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Super Lloyd wrote: There is no copy option either, just paste....
And all of you say that the Q&A guys can't do anything on their own...
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Now !!!
quite late to the party (of MS product bashers!)
Thanks,
Milind
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Not just JIRA.
Even if it works, it takes forever to show the context menu, and sometimes you click copy and it does nothing. You end up copying the same fking thing 2-3 times until you give up and switch back to chrome or w/e you use.
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Glad someone understand me!
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Super Lloyd wrote: Back to sanity, and Chrome!
Pick one, then. You can't have both.
Me, I miss Opera, back in the days when it was fast, innovative, and a damned useful tool.
Nowadays, they're all flash and poor substance, and the third-party plug-ins that people make to replace the most useful functions (Sessions! Life was so easy with sessions!) rarely work after even minor updates.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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How to use the RC4 crypto algorithm in a chat using udp protocol
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What really tickle my curiosity is, what prompt you to use this title "Santos", what does that even means?
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