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comma@midwest.social to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish ·
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Which Free&Open-Source Projects should I Donate to?

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Which Free&Open-Source Projects should I Donate to?

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comma@midwest.social to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish ·
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What FOSS projects are most in need of funding? I’d like to help if I can.

I’m also looking for projects only related to FOSS, or “in-the-spirit” of FOSS.

https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2347:_Dependency

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    archive.org

    It was just attacked by hackers a few months ago, no to mention all the lawsuits they’ve been getting, and cost of maintenance of TERABYTES of data. They really need the funding to survive.

    Edit: Missed the FOSS part, but still, its worth mentioning. archive.org is not an open source software, but they are a non-profit doing something that benefits all of us. And they are transparent about how they operate. More like a “Free and Transparent Community Service”, rather than “FOSS”. And not to mention, the many FOSS software they could preserve in case they stop getting maintained, so they could get picked up later, and not be forever lost. It goes hand-in-hand with the philosophy of FOSS: benefiting society.

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      Pretty sure the internet archive is dealing with Petabytes, if not Exabytes.

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        Yea, I have terabytes of data in my closet

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          That’s a lot of porn.

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            *Linux ISOs

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              Yeah, that’s what they said.

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            there’s a yo-momma joke here.

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              “Yo momma so old and retro she’s freely available to all on archive.org”?

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            Imagine how much the internet archive has!

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        A single copy of the Internet Archive library collection occupies 145+ Petabytes of server space – and we store at least 2 copies of everything).

        https://archive.org/about/

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