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Donating isn’t really the same as paying

• not_your_vase 3y ago
  If you throw some money at the project so the dev team can drink a couple of beers on you, that's donation. If you throw some money at the project because they imply that otherwise development and software availability stops, that's paying for software. Not saying that either one is bad, or worse than the other. But this doesn't look like the first case.
  • its-summertime 3y ago
    If a charity stops receiving donations, it also stops. The project can stop regardless of your donation, in turn, there is no return consideration. Which is what makes it a donation.
    • not_your_vase 3y ago
      How is it different from any other paid software, that come with an agreement stating that the software comes without any promises and warranties (including having the software working and existing in the past/present/future)? They say it costs money to develop and maintain software. Which is fine, because it does. But from that moment the statement "Never pay for software again" becomes quite disingenuous, if you ask me.