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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. Sounds like... by ghettoboy22 · · Score: 2, Troll

    Good idea, but how many people will actually donate? Sounds more like shareware and not the "traditional" open-source we've come to love and appreciate. I can think of a few projects I wouldn't mind donating to, but that's the key word. A couple.

  2. Re:So...... by MoonFog · · Score: 0, Troll

    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.
    If they feel your "sit on my ass project" is worth their money, sure.

  3. We should donate $$ to other free sites as well... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    .. like goatse.cx or tubgirl.com. Can you imagine what their bandwidth bills are with all of us linking to them?

  4. Re:PayPal vs SourceForge - Breakdown tsarkon by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
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  5. donations needed for va lairIE/robbIE's whoreabull by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    fraudulent corepirate nazi puppet PostBlock(tm) devise, as it never did/still doesn't, work?