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DBeaver is amazing. As someone who needs to do adhoc querying / extracting / loading of data from any hosts of system on a daily basis - this tool has saved me over and over again.

My beef is there doesn't seem to be a way to contribute $$$ to the OS version -- except for buying/subscribing to the commercial version. Maybe I've missed some web page that explains how to do contribute -- so if anyone knows if there's a way to do that --- post it here.

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I swear I donated to them via paypal once long ago, but I think they've since removed all those donation links in favor of the EE.

Presumably any profits they make from merch goes into their pockets, so you could buy something from there that's in the price range you want to donate I suppose https://www.redbubble.com/people/DBeaverCorp/shop

t-shirt ordered.. thx!

Out of curiosity, why not buy/subscribe to the commercial version then, if this is the clear path for how to support the primary developers of the software?

I don't like the subscription options they offer. I just want to throw them $50 a year for the CE version -- which I would think is better than $0 a year I'm giving them now.

From my POV, $50/year is not necessarily better than $0. Open source "donations" to open core / commercial OSS businesses typically don't amount to much in total. It's basically a rounding error for most businesses, with the extra downside of accounting/tax tracking. And although many FOSS financial contributors understand that this is a no-strings-attached type of situation, a small portion become very demanding and have unreasonable expectations due to being a supporter.

I mean I kind of get where you're coming from, but on the other hand... outside of software, would you ever praise a product as an amazing life-saver, but express a beef with the makers' lack of a pocket-change GoFundMe?

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