Port Mozilla, Collect $3696 358
An anonymous reader writes "The goal of the AmiZilla effort is to raise such an obscene/huge amount of money to give away to the first programmer/team that can port Mozilla to Amiga that Amiga programmers will be falling over themselves getting this application coded in record time.
The booty currently stands at $3696. Parties interested in making some extra cash to pay off student loans/go on a wild bender can find more infomation here."
I would rather see it coded well (Score:5, Insightful)
Great Idea (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:I would rather see it coded well (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:I would rather see it coded well (Score:5, Insightful)
23$ an hour is HUGE (Score:5, Insightful)
The problem with this thing is that second place gets mo money. So if you coded for 150 hours and someone else finishes, then you got paid 0$/hr. To me, this is unacceptable because I always end up getting shafted like that.
Arguments... (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:$3696 / 160 =~ $23/hr for one month (Score:3, Insightful)
$23 dollars per hour is a lot to someone who is currently unemployed, or doesn't have the time to work because they are studying. Given that there are a lot of people who do this kind of thing without any optimism about financial reward, this probably will get quite a good response.
Re:$4000? (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Righto (Score:4, Insightful)
most users have PPC accelerators, REAL graphic cards (even if they are old, like the Voodoo3),
>64Mbs of RAM or even better, a new PowerPC
motherboard like the Pegasos (running MorphOS,
if you want AmigaOS compatability), with modern
hardware like the Radeon series, etc.
Opensource would rather see it coded fast (Score:2, Insightful)
Humble opinion: In Open source it is more important to have something to start with so others can follow someone's lead, than have something to finish with, so no one else has anything to add.
Besides, they do mention "Beta", beta == feature completeness with only minor problems. Should be okay.
Re:What a waste of time! (Score:2, Insightful)
Wouldn't it be easier... (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Why not port khtml instead? (Score:5, Insightful)
If you want to compare porting Mozilla to something, you'd have to compare it to porting all of the KDE widget set _plus_ khtml.