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Bribe Devs To Improve Open Source Software

Posted by Unknown on from the five-cents-for-two-years-of-work dept.

mikejuk writes "Bribe.io announces itself as: 'A super easy way to bribe developers to fix bugs and add features in the software you're using.' Recognizing the fact that a lot of open source projects are maintained by developers working alone and in their spare time, the idea is to encourage other developers to by specifying a monetary value to a bug report or feature enhancement. Once an initial 'Bribe' has been posted others can 'chip in' and add to the financial incentive."

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  1. Re:Appealing to the inner pirate ... by Lennie · · Score: 4, Informative

    Obviously, many services already exists which provide bounties for open source development:
    https://www.google.com/search?q=open+source+bounty

    So really, from first glance this doesn't sound new in any way.

    The writer of the article thinks the 'voting system' (multiple people pledge to pay for a feature/bugfix) is a novel idea though. I've not looked at the others, it might be.

    Sounds a bit like kickstarter as well.

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