Bribe Devs To Improve Open Source Software 109
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."
Re:Appealing to the inner pirate ... (Score:5, Informative)
Obviously, many services already exists which provide bounties for open source development:
https://www.google.com/search?q=open+source+bounty [google.com]
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.
Re:The problem this has always had in the past... (Score:4, Informative)
Batch conversion with no screen output is not supported, which many people want so that they can provide screen readers for things like forms documents that are required on state and federal forms documents which are flagged as "no edit", which makes them non-compliant with the Americans with Disability Act (ADA).
Bounty Source (Score:4, Informative)