[Bastille]

Recently, I’ve been thinking about donating to IT non-profit organizations because when I was younger, I always said, “When I grow up and start earning a salary, I’ll be able to give back.”

Now I’m wondering which ones are truly worth it—who really deserves it?

I’d like to keep this thread focused on IT-related non-profit organizations.
Here are a few I have in mind :

• WinRAR (Been using it for free for years—these guys definitely deserve some love.)
  


• Wayback Machine / Internet Archive (Seriously, how amazing is it to browse the internet from the past?!)
  


• VLC (Who hasn’t downloaded VLC? Plus, they’re French—gotta support the homeland!)
  


• FSF / FOSS / The Linux Foundation (Like, where would we be if they hadn’t been there ?)
  

By the way, speaking of WinRAR—they’ve released some clothes and merch : https://in.tern.et/collections/winrar which are crazy, I would defnitely wear the WinRAR SENIOR VARSITY JACKET tern® , but need to get a job before haha, can't spend 224$ on this right now.

Feel free to share the ones you're thinking about !

[Tyr]

Internet Archive (Wayback Machine) deserves it hands-down.

[Artisan]

Definitely the ones on the list plus Wikipedia.

[Bastille]

Definitely the ones on the list plus Wikipedia.

I've donated two times to Wikipedia however after few years I've stumbled upon videos like this one :

Vlc, Libre suite, ad block, even wikipedia are all free resources that have helped the masses navigate personal computing for years. Cool concept

Ohhh, didn't think about adblockers, my money would go to uBlock Origin for sure !

[Beherit]

I've donated two times to Wikipedia however after few years I've stumbled upon videos like this one :




Ohhh, didn't think about adblockers, my money would go to uBlock Origin for sure !

uBlock is a must for sure - also MAL-Sync extention. VLC, qbittorrent, and Audacity. Maybe Veracrypt too.