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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. Re:Is Software Tangible Enough For This? by rockytriton · · Score: -1, Troll

    I'd rather give my money to a company which has employees and helps the economy grow and will give me support and get real commercial software. It's better than donating money to a bunch of russian kids who have no sense of quality in software anyway.