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'Open Funding' For Driver Development

Posted by timothy on from the how-about-kernel-drivers-for-usb-802.11 dept.

Doc Ruby writes "The TreoCentral community has announced a bounty for the first BlueTooth SDIO driver delivered for the Treo 600 (PalmOS 5). The thread shows the development of both the requirements of the quarry, and the contributions to the bounty. If this process works, is 'open funding' of development the next wave of the emerging online community? How will the 'traditional' vision/scope> requirements> features> >recode> retest> demo> cycle expand to include the user community in the financing?" Update: 06/16 19:43 GMT by T : Updated the bounty link to a server better able to handle it.

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  1. Re:I'd buy that for a dollar! by Astrorunner · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Of course... Lager! The only thing that can kill a chicken quataloo.

  2. "Open Funding" model by Kafka_Canada · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I suppose it's somewhat inappropriate to post "classified ads" or the like in a Slashdot thread, although maybe by doing so I'll help get /. to innovate in that field ;)

    I've started working on a model that I'm quite confident will both be profitable and allow for easy and effective user- and project owner-funded development of open source software. I have the skills and most of the capital (it takes very little w.r.t. basic operations), but in order to speed up the to-market time and develop a better service, I'm looking for one or a few people with LAMP experience who have a strong desire to work on this sort of project.

    If you're interested, e-mail me at daniel@istop.com, I'll give further details and we can discuss your participation.

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    Fuck it