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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.'"

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  1. Re:Smart FOSS Marketing! by FatdogHaiku · · Score: 3, Informative

    Well, at 40,000,000 lines of Code Windows XP would have cost $160,000,000...

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  2. Re:what happens by paroneayea · · Score: 2, Informative

    Actually, we've stripped all the redundant lines out of the adoptable lines in the database well before we launched. Including that one, including try, except, blah blah. :) And Miro *IS* written in python, fwiw.

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