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After The GNOME Bounties, It's Mozilla's Turn

Posted by timothy on from the cheap-labor dept.

MikeCapone writes "Slashdot had an article about the GNOME bounties a few days ago, but now, thanks to the Shuttleworth Foundation (created by Mark Shuttleworth, the guy who went into the ISS as a Soyuz cosmonaut a couple of years ago), the Mozilla project also has some monetary incentives. The budget for 2004 is USD$100,000."

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  1. $100,000 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Minus $699 for the license from SCO. Makes $99301 total.

  2. Interesting Idea.. by VivianC · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hmmm. Paying people to develop code? What a clever idea! I'd beter patent this quick!

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    1. Re:Interesting Idea.. by Chicane-UK · · Score: 2, Funny

      Quick.. get in there before the Patent Office awards patents for 'method for developing software' and 'paying people to develop software'.

      Oh, sarcasm btw ;)

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  3. A Bounty In The Spirit Of The Open Source Movement by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I think there should a bounty on a patch that creates a new incompatible and competing theme system for Mozilla based on ideological differences.

  4. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 4, Funny

    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  5. Re:My Mozilla bounty by larry+bagina · · Score: 5, Funny
    my bounty: I'm sick of clicking on links and not being redirected to goatse. I will pay $50.00 to anyone who can submit a patch to mozilla.org (and they accept it) so clicking on a link will randomly redirect me to http://goatse.cx. Ideally, the screen would also maximize and the back button would be disabled as well, and maybe a really loud beep so other people will know I'm a sick pervert.

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  6. Bounties? by DogIsMyCoprocessor · · Score: 4, Funny

    Huh, what (wakes up) ... is Microsoft taking out contracts on open-source developers now?

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  7. already done by sacrilicious · · Score: 2, Funny
    clicking on a link will randomly redirect me to http://goatse.cx

    I think I remember reading recently that Belkin routers do this for you. :)

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