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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. $3696 / 160 =~ $23/hr for one month by Speare · · Score: 5, Interesting

    If the port should take four man-weeks to do, that works out to about $23 dollars per hour. Somehow I think they're going to need to collect more bounty before developers would "fall all over themselves" for the task.

    That said, if I had extra cash, I'd offer bounties for small programming tasks. My home life doesn't afford enough hacking time to do all of the ideas I write down, and I would love to parcel them out for a hobby-sized bounty to students or other junior coders who also want to use it as a learning opportunity.

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  2. thought it might be a interesting project... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    and then fell to the floor laughing uncontrolable because i found what i was looking for (its in the FAQ):

    Q: What will be the requirements and the minimum spec for the Amiga version.

    A: Well that will depend a lot on the programming team that tackles the port and their skillset but the spec I would like to see is Amiga OS 3.9 and above and/or WinUAE/Amiga Forever/Amithlon/AROS/MorphOS. 68030+ CPU, faster the better, 24 bit Graphics card, 32MB of RAM. I would also like the coders to try hard to make it work with AGA.

    get it ! get it ! they are talking about the original amiga series, not the new one with the 600mhz PPC !
    mozilla isnt even running lag free on my dual P3 with 512mb ram omg omg this is so over the top :DD

  3. Re:$4000? by mdwh2 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    No offense, but this would pay for about 10 days of a junior developer's time.

    And much money do the guys porting Mozilla to other platforms receive?

    This is open source. Of course, the amount of money isn't going to attract someone who is looking to do programming for commercial gain, but I don't see that anyone is claiming it is. $4000 is a lot more than the $0 that is up for offer by default on open source projects.

    The idea is that if someone is perhaps tempted to port it (be it for fun, or whatever else drives people to write software for free), then the cash is a little extra incentive.