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OSS Funding through Fundable

Posted by Zonk on from the pool-money-for-software dept.

John Pratt writes "FredCK, developer of the popular FCKEditor, recently raised $600 from supporters through Fundable to port his open source HTML editor to Safari. Fundable is a new site that lets groups of people pool money for specific purposes, like software features. Unlike generic donation dropboxes (such as PayPal buttons), if a group's targeted collection isn't reached after 2 or 4 weeks, everyone gets a complete refund." Newsforge has a piece discussing the site as well.

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  1. Like Linux Fund by AKAImBatman · · Score: 5, Interesting

    So it's like Linux Fund except that the users get to donate money directly to projects?

    It's actually kind of neat how various funding options have begun appearing. Writing OSS software is a thankless job that takes hundreds (sometimes thousands) of man-hours. I'm curious if there's a possibility in the future of software developers being employed full time on user funded projects.

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  2. Re:Is Software Tangible Enough For This? by th0mas.sixbit.org · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Uhm, no.

    It is a donation system that happens to also have a method to return the donation in case the developer completely fails.

    It's not "your software". You're donating to a group, helping them reach their goal. In the event they cannot reach their goal (by their definition, since it's their software), they can kindly refund the money.

    What you're looking for is to hire a software developer (or company) to write software for you. That's not what this is. So move along.

    But don't worry, you're modded up, so you have a great point.

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