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Miro Asks Users To "Adopt" Lines of Source

Posted by kdawson on from the pray-you-don't-get-refactored dept.

soDean writes "The FOSS video player / downloader Miro is asking its users to support development by 'adopting' a line of source code for $4 a month. Each adopted line of code comes personalized with a little avatar character that will grow older over the year. PCF, which makes Miro, says they think the project is the first of its kind and they believe it's a chance to 'to have a truly bottom up funding base.'"

21 of 178 comments (clear)

  1. what happens by binford2k · · Score: 4, Funny

    when your line of code dies?

    1. Re:what happens by Chabo · · Score: 5, Funny

      Or maybe if someone decides to deprecate your method just to spite you?

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    2. Re:what happens by rolfwind · · Score: 5, Funny

      when your line of code dies?

      It gets buried properly, it gets inserted into the Duke Nukem Forever project.

    3. Re:what happens by CrimsonScythe · · Score: 5, Funny

      I just adopted this little gem:

      }

      I hope they won't port it to Python any day soon, though...

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    4. Re:what happens by cstdenis · · Score: 2, Funny

      Too late.

      You'll have to settle for:

              try:
      or
              else:

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    5. Re:what happens by GumphMaster · · Score: 2, Funny

      Just adopt:

      while (true) {

      and all will be well

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    6. Re:what happens by nospam007 · · Score: 2, Funny

      Not to mention that I already own tons of files full of lines with 'old' code.
      The room is full of it, some lines have even beards.
      Why adopt another one is beyond me.

    7. Re:what happens by Darinbob · · Score: 2, Funny

      Is this the Tamagotchi model of development?

  2. Where's Sally Struthers? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    "For only $4 a month, you can give this line of source clean electricity and information to process and grow."

    1. Re:Where's Sally Struthers? by TerribleNews · · Score: 5, Funny

      Oh, yeah, my parents adopted a line of code in Beliz or Botswanna or something and they kept getting printfs from him ever month and then one day they decided to go visit him in his village and when they got there it turned out he'd been commented out years ago and his parents had been keeping the $4 and writing fake output. True story.

  3. Revolutionary by curtix7 · · Score: 4, Funny

    the end of one line if statements and ternary operators as we know them.

  4. Comments? by bughunter · · Score: 4, Funny

    Do I get a discount if I adopt a comment?

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    I can see the fnords!
    1. Re:Comments? by AcidDeath · · Score: 5, Funny

      Do I get a discount if I adopt a comment?

      Only if its inaccurate and misleading.
      So yes.

  5. I have been gypped by DarkIye · · Score: 5, Funny

    // This is line #273523

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  6. Re:Doesn't bode well by ShawnCplus · · Score: 3, Funny

    // This line of code brought to you by Error Establishing Database Connection

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  7. rent? by mevets · · Score: 2, Funny

    If I adopt a line, can I charge other lines rent for using it?

  8. There's the signpost up ahead... by Marko+DeBeeste · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...You've just crossed from "Creative" to "Cute." Next up: An endless stream of tote bags.

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  9. Forget adopt a child... by sourICE · · Score: 5, Funny

    Why support a child when I can support i++?

  10. Cheap trick... by Paaskonijn · · Score: 5, Funny

    I get this on the page:

    Hello there! It looks like you are visiting from Europe

    Did you know that there are more Miro users in Europe than in the United States, but more than 99% of our financial support comes from American donations and philanthropies?

    Europe loves open-source, right? Help us make something great!

    Sounds like they're trying to cash in on our hatred for the U.S. :)

  11. Re:Smart FOSS Marketing! by hansamurai · · Score: 3, Funny

    Hey, you haven't seen how much my company pays me to write one line of code.

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  12. Having used Miro by Fnord666 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Having used Miro, I want to adopt the following line:
    10 REM

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