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SourceForge Donation System for Projects

Posted by michael on from the buddy-can-you-spare-a-quarter dept.

comforteagle writes "O'Reilly Developer News is reporting that SourceForge has begun a donations program for hosted projects in addition to the program which was for supporting the site. Apparently project admins have to opt-in to have the program setup for them, but it sounds like a pretty good idea. There's a 5% transaction fee, but that doesn't sound totally unreasonable. Perhaps a limit would be a good idea though." Sourceforge and Slashdot are both owned by VA Software Corp.

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  1. Re:Could get messy by MoonFog · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    How do you decide whose contribution deserves what portion?
    From the article: Today we are launching a system that allows users to not only donate to SF.NET, but also to their favorite projects.

    It's the user/donator himself who chooses which project get the money, not SF or any other authority.