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Port Mozilla, Collect $3696

Posted by timothy on from the but-to-amiga dept.

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."

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  1. I would rather see it coded well by earthforce_1 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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?

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    1. Re:I would rather see it coded well by peksik · · Score: 5, Insightful

      I believe the idea isn't to get fully tested bug-free code, but moreover to get a somewhat working version of Mozilla to kickstart the development. It would work both as a proof of concept and a nice base for the port.

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  2. Great Idea by Jedi1USA · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

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  3. 23$ an hour is HUGE by CrazyJim0 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

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  4. Re:Righto by AMiGR · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

  5. Re:Why not port khtml instead? by BZ · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.