i think by donation the money has even more value for the developer with their open source software than the money when they would sell it. lot of thanx for all who involved in the open source development
Recently made a donation and short after, I started receiving a bunch of emails about updates on the repo :), feeling great.
Adam Gerthel
I made a donation today actually to DiskInventoryX, a small program that I've used a lot of times over the years. I also did another one a couple of months ago to the developer of a small Sketch plugin that I really liked.
But in general, I think myself and a lot of others do it too seldomly.