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Not OP, but pure donations lack the "spread the word" aspect of wearing an advert on a shirt.
Yeah but on the other hand infrastructure costs and they need money to pay developers and so on. Using FOSS is cool and all but it's not cheap and free of charge - at least developing it that is.
Surely spreading the word would increase total donations?
Spreading the word about the software or that you should donate because they need it? 1st no 2nd yes