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Port Mozilla, Collect $3696
An anonymous reader writes "The goal of the AmiZilla effort is to raise such an obscene/huge amount of money to give away to the first programmer/team that can port Mozilla to Amiga that Amiga programmers will be falling over themselves getting this application coded in record time.
The booty currently stands at $3696. Parties interested in making some extra cash to pay off student loans/go on a wild bender can find more infomation here."
Than coded fast. Code that is cranked out in record time ususally isn't efficient or stable. How do you verify that the winning code contains no major bugs?
My rights don't need management.
Nothing like cold hard cash to get someones attention. This isn't "pay off the mortgage" kind of money, but better than a poke in the eye with a stick.
My old sig was REALLY stoopid.
I just graduated CMU with a degree in CS, I'd take a $10 an hour job if I could find one.
The problem with this thing is that second place gets mo money. So if you coded for 150 hours and someone else finishes, then you got paid 0$/hr. To me, this is unacceptable because I always end up getting shafted like that.
God spoke to me
No doubt this will end in the usual arguments about who did what and when. It always does when money is involved. Humans are just too greedy.
$23 dollars per hour is a lot to someone who is currently unemployed, or doesn't have the time to work because they are studying. Given that there are a lot of people who do this kind of thing without any optimism about financial reward, this probably will get quite a good response.
If I seem short sighted, it is because I stand on the shoulders of midgets
You're telling me that Junior Programmers are making $144,000/year? Man where are you working? Got openings?
-- taking over the world, we are.
Actually that is a long forgotten past, nowadays,
most users have PPC accelerators, REAL graphic cards (even if they are old, like the Voodoo3),
>64Mbs of RAM or even better, a new PowerPC
motherboard like the Pegasos (running MorphOS,
if you want AmigaOS compatability), with modern
hardware like the Radeon series, etc.
Humble opinion: In Open source it is more important to have something to start with so others can follow someone's lead, than have something to finish with, so no one else has anything to add.
Besides, they do mention "Beta", beta == feature completeness with only minor problems. Should be okay.
it was a nice platform in its days. I can understand the nostalgy. If today's computers were done with the same smarts that the Amiga was made with we'd be in a better state of affairs.
To make an AmigaOS skin and put that on your Mozilla running in Linux? I would agree that it would be fun to have a working copy of Mozilla to run in UAE to show my friends but I honestly don't see any real world use. Even in AmigaOS4 is finished, it isn't going to revive the Amiga to its 1980's glory days. The Mac and the PC have long taken over the reigns that the Amiga once held in sound and graphics. I'd much rather see the efforts go into a more modern and existing OS like Linux or even Mac OS X.
'Same speed C but faster'
khtml is a rendering engine. Mozilla is an application. Porting gecko (the khtml equivalent in Mozilla) and porting kthml are about equally difficult. Possibly easier for gecko, which is designed from the ground up to be easily portable.
If you want to compare porting Mozilla to something, you'd have to compare it to porting all of the KDE widget set _plus_ khtml.