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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. not a bribe by Gravis+Zero · · Score: 5, Insightful

    it's not a bribe, it's a contract. how is this news?

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  2. Appealing to the inner pirate ... by perpenso · · Score: 5, Insightful

    it's not a bribe, it's a contract. how is this news?

    Its not news its marketing. Open source hobbyist devs are too rebellious to go for contracts, bribes are more appealing to their inner pirate. ;-) Its a way to make minimum wage pay for software development sound cool.

    1. Re:Appealing to the inner pirate ... by Vintermann · · Score: 5, Insightful

      In that case, wouldn't "ransom" or "bounty" have been better? There have been projects like this before. As I recall, there was even one before Kickstarter came and made everyone talk about "crowdfunding" - but it didn't catch on.

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    2. Re:Appealing to the inner pirate ... by alex67500 · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Ransom implies hostages... But bounty sounds exactly right, indeed! I personally probably would get off my lazy backside and start coding a bit more if there was a little reward involved

    3. Re:Appealing to the inner pirate ... by DNS-and-BIND · · Score: 4, Insightful

      In other news, people who think bribery is cool are small-minded morons. Case in point:

      "One of the things I have always found troubling about Westerners doing business in emerging market countries is that they sometimes take an almost perverse pride in discussing payoffs to government officials. It is as though their having paid a bribe is a symbol of their international sophistication and insider knowledge. Yet, countless times when I am told of the bribe, I know the very same thing could almost certainly have been accomplished without a bribe."
      --Dan Harris, chinalawblog.com

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  3. Reward for work? by genocyde · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Getting paid for work? What arcane principle is this?

    Doesnt everyone just work for free towards the greater good of software

  4. In the rest of the world... by Reeses · · Score: 4, Insightful

    that's called issuing a paycheck.

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