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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:$4 a line?? by Chabo · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Hopefully companies are paying their developers more than $40 per day :).

    Depends on whether those jobs have been sent overseas.

    On a related note, I'm genuinely curious: what's the average salary for developers look like in the countries to which companies often outsource work, like India and China?

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  2. Re:$4 a line?? by Gwala · · Score: 3, Interesting

    We have a group in Shanghai - we've got pretty well qualified guys in our office, we pay them 14,000 RMB per month (~US$2,000). They get about 8,000-10,000 of that with the rest going to the government in payroll taxes.

    More average developers come in at between 6,500 to 8,500 RMB per month.

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