how to donate to developers?

[Kebap]

Hello, I love this extension, and have been using it for a long time. It would be great as a default option in Firefox! However, I can't find a way how to donate to the fabulous developers of this addon? Please show me a way. Thank you and best wishes.

[eddietejeda]

👍

[piroor]

Thanks, but sorry, I have no plan about any donation because I hope to keep me as the prime user of this project. i hope to keep having a privilege to say "no" about requests not matched to my vision. Instead, please fork this project freely for your purpose if needed.

[HamsterHuey]

@piroor - I ended up here looking to find out if I could donate. I respect your standpoint on donations 👍 . At least I wanted to pay you back by letting you know how grateful I am for your continued support of this outstanding add on. I have been using it for many many years now. I cannot be on the internet without it. It is the first extension I install on Firefox on every computer I ever touch and I continue to get more friends and family into using it. I can't even quantify just how much it has improved my productivity when working on many different things on the web - I say this while I have 60+ tabs open in FF currently :-). Best wishes and thanks again for all your hard work!

[kernc]

This. ↑

[akeeton]

I second @HamsterHuey's response and it's truly fantastic that @piroor is still contributing to this delightful extension.

It's difficult to remember a time when I haven't used Tree Style Tabs (OK, maybe I wasn't using it with Mozilla Phoenix :P). TST is the reason Firefox is my go-to browser. I wish everyone knew about!

[3d73a4a412]

Well it seems clear piroor is not doing this for the donations, it took me awhile to find this. I too wanted to express my gratitude, this is one of the first and few addons that I add when using firefox - to say its indispensable would be a gross understatement. If piroor decides in the future to accept donations I will happily get in line! THANK YOU PIROOR!!!!!!!

[alith]

Well, I was looking for a donation option to contribute, after many many years of use, and...
Well, thanks a lot.
And also. Thanks for proving me wrong about the web being less and less free, and more and more ad oriented or money pursuing. Long live the FOSS.
Thanks.

[piroor]

I'm working as an engineer at a FOSS friendly company @clear-code providing commercial support for Firefox and Thunderbird for a long time. There are large benefit on our business that I'm keeping me an expert of Firefox, thus my boss allows me to develop Firefox addons during our business hours when I'm not busy in tasks. I think you won't need to worry about the death of this project while our business is still alive, even if there are no donation way. Thanks!

[MasterKia]

Thanks for proving me wrong about the web being less and less free, and more and more ad oriented or money pursuing. Long live the FOSS.

@alith
The Free in FOSS doesn't mean "free of charge", it means "free as in freedom (libre)"; a software that respects your freedom as a user.

FOSS: Free/Libre and open-source software

[alith]

I thought that was the difference between free software and open license software.
The article you linked speak at length of the difference between open source soft and free open source soft. And also freedom of speech and not free beer.
But what do we call free (beer) software then? Is freeware still something meaningful?

[MasterKia]

The article you linked speak at length of the difference between open source soft and free open source soft

That's true, but the article does point out that nearly all "open source" programs are in fact free (as in freedom).

"Open Source" is based on practical advantages only and says that if you "open source" your software, then users can "add features and fix bugs" for you.

Free Software says that if you want your software to respect the user's freedom, it should have the four freedoms.

In the end, some people created the word "FOSS" to avoid the confusion of "free of charge" and "free as in freedom"; but I think it wasn't a good idea because now people would think FOSS means "Free of charge and open-source software".
So FLOSS is a better term to use in my opinion. But I mostly use the term "Free/Libre software".

what do we call free (beer) software then? Is freeware still something meaningful?

Yes. "Freeware" or "free of charge" software should work.
Wikipedia users the term "Freeware" to refer to non-free (proprietary) software that are free of charge.
For example: "CPU-Z is a freeware system monitoring application".