How successful have donations been with your site?
patio11: The only person I've ever heard of really hit the ball out of the park with donations is Rick Brewster (Paint.NET).  He has some interesting blog articles about the subject which Google will bring up.http://blog.getpaint.net/2007/07/13/making-money-with-freewa...More typical is SyntaxHighlighter, which is the JS syntax highlighting thing that everyone and their dog uses on their blog.  The author has raised about $100 in donations so far (number pulled off site).  I'm one quarter of that, because his software saved me so much work I donated the USD equivalent of one sale of my software to him.  Since he started accepting donations his software has been, conservatively, downloaded several hundred thousand times by people who use it to increase their commercial and professional opportunities.Compare that to commercial software for a moment: I sell about a hundred dollars worth of licenses to my bingo thingee a day, on rather substantially less than several hundred thousand installs.Which is a long way to say "Charge money for value".(Relatedly, I am reminded of a good line I heard from a developmental economist once: Only one country ever got rich from foreign aid, and the Vatican is not a great model for Africa.)