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Miro Asks Users To "Adopt" Lines of Source
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.'"
when your line of code dies?
Finally an Open Source project with some real marketing geniuses on board! That alone deserves celebration.
I don't think this will quite work, but it's a step in the right direction. Will users get to pick which line they adopt? You could even imagine an auction system. Some lines might become very trendy: "I own the main function declaration of the program, but that cost me $500".
I'll ask the people on my entrepreneur network if they like the model!
"For only $4 a month, you can give this line of source clean electricity and information to process and grow."
the end of one line if statements and ternary operators as we know them.
Man, that's more than a lot of programmers get paid at their full-time jobs.
Interesting idea, I wonder if this will lead to people purposely adding lines of code just to generate more revenue. Hopefully they would set up a price system based upon supply/demand at that point though.
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The code-base of Miro doubled in size with 99% of the new lines coming from comment...err programmer documentation.
Do I get a discount if I adopt a comment?
I can see the fnords!
Now the developers at Miro will spend all their time making sure their emoticons age properly instead of actually coding!
At $4/month that would be a nice way to make a killing in profits.
Of course the result will be something roughly like the whole pixel advertising schemes in the end and Miro itself will suck, but hats off for the a good scam to make money of software.
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Best 4 bucks I ever spent
What happens if your line of code is the cause of a major bug? Do you have to hide your head in shame?
Who would win this election: Andrew Weiner vs Andrew Weiner's weiner.
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// This is line #273523
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If they let you adopt a whole function or even a whole class, this could be a cool way of not only making money but also minimising bugs.
People who adopt are likely going to read the code they get so this is a good way to get lots of eyes on the source.
Just a thought..
heh, I adopted a line of code, the recurring payment was processed by PayPal and then Miro's site broke so I paid for nothing. HOORAY!
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If I adopt a line, can I charge other lines rent for using it?
"The line of code I adopted starts with /* and has several expletives referring to the code below it."
$4/line per month? Hell, I should try and get some code into this project... if I can get 2000 lines of code adopted, I'll make $96K/year for the rest of my life. Seems I'll be able to retire before 30 after all. :)
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hello copy&paste...
Recently we evaluated a static code analysis package from a vendor (that shall remain nameless) that wants to charge us by the line. The code in question is just over half a million lines of C code. At the (presumed) rate of ten cents a line, that's easily 50k USD. I can't think of a better business model (other than the route MP/RIAA have taken.)
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Why support a child when I can support i++?
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. :)
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How much does it cost to run this program?
Are you really adopting a line of code or contributing $4 a month to be used as required.
Next thing you know, they'll allow advertisements as comments in code. What an annoyance!
I've adopted the copyright statements at the head of each file. What a waste of $4000/mo.
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I like the idea of miro, but my ISP sucks and last time i checked it didnt support an easy way to change my upload limits, or encrypting all connections?
I also don't see the need for an entire application when they could just as easily make the thing a web app and users could use rss + their normal torrent application to download stuff, but i suppose some people prefer to have it run locally.
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if someone agrees to adopt this line I saw at work today:
pHSEGB->coarse += (7- nWeirdBits)*6 - 42;
Hungarian notation, confusing logic, magic numbers, "weird bits", and some jackass decided to subtract the ultimate answer from it all.
... also, I can kill you with my brain.
Having used Miro, I want to adopt the following line:
10 REM
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If I adopt my slashdot number do I get extra nerd points?
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What if the line contains a bug? Do you get a refund?
Duke nukem code:
#This is miro component X made by someguy
-dukenukem stuff here-
The makers of duke nukem would be all "WTF!"
By reading this you agree to give me (Noxn) 1 dollar.
https://develop.participatoryculture.org/trac/democracy/browser/tags/Miro-2.0.4/tv/portable/frontends/widgets/prefpanel.py#L287
Watch great movie opening scenes!
Microsoft just announced that you can ADOPT source code lines of windows VISTA!
Ballmer: "We had this idea because im a genius blah blah blah"
Reporter: "Didnt miro start this strategy?"
Ballmer: "SHUT UP!!! I THROW CHAIRS!1!11"
Of course you can ONLY adopt comments of the developers (All including the word FUCK atleast one time), because were not giving away our codes!!!
By reading this you agree to give me (Noxn) 1 dollar.
Is that the bottom-up approach they were talking about in TFS ?
Squirrel!
Do you know what happens when a programmer is paid by line of code?
Especially on OS X, PPC, what is up with Python using almost 70% of CPU while adding media to library? Apple' s Python is buggy? Or more important question (as same goes for Java), why Python was used? Because it is "fashion" or classy to use it in such matter?
I was forced to iTunes "podcast" using because someone had the genius idea of using Python for media catalogue generating. Perhaps it runs good on Linux/BSD but not on OS X.
Also how come it uses too much CPU while downloading? Isn't it people's number 1 concern with iTunes? There is "curl" in every OS X machine out there, why not use it instead? Or better embed wget?
How can we pay for removing the needless fashion style lines? :)
That's it, I'm moving back to assembler. There are so many more lines there and I even get the added bonus of getting people to pay for NOOP lines :)
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If I give money to a project, I expect to become a stakeholder of it - i.e. the priority of my inputs to their bug tracker and wish list would take into account the contribution I make.
Otherwise, I'd be quite reluctant - probably just like everyone else.
running windows mobile??? BLASPHEMY!!!!
Stupidity only gets you so far, then you've gotta try
1. Code Bloat, millions of lines 2. ????? 3. Profit!
A neat idea, but, for FOSS projects at least, I think it would be more useful to be able to adopt lines of documentation rather than code. At least it would hopefully mean there are more of the former...
is better, That one feature that pleases you the most in software should get the most support the other crappy features should be selected out by nature. Binary-techno-evolution. the code should become pnuemetic to the environment. but software development can be a issue when you have mental illness, and hve to fight with the hierarchy all the god damn fucking time. esp, hen you do not want to take the pills.