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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. Great... but.... by rockytriton · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Great, it sounds like a good deal, you donate 50 bucks and you get it back if they don't reach their goal of 1000 bucks.......

    but do you get your money back if they never put the feature in, or if the feature is buggy, or if the just take forever to implement it????