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Mark Shuttleworth on companies and free softwareMark Shuttleworth on companies and free softwarePosted May 18, 2011 8:29 UTC (Wed) by michaeljt (subscriber, #39183)In reply to: Mark Shuttleworth on companies and free software by neilbrown Parent article: Mark Shuttleworth on companies and free software
> It feels like there should be a model that allows those who want to fund software to be "* supporters *" and there by enable developers to finish the job, but I have no idea what it is.... I'm sure it isn't a "--donate" option on all programs....
The idea of a "donate" button on the bugtracker just crossed my mind. Without any guarantees of fixing, but at least raising the visibility of the bug.
Alternatively, people could donate money towards a particular bug which would be "released" to whoever fixes the bug, or to the project if the person didn't want the money. This would only work for projects that accepted donations of course. It needn't even be run by the project itself - someone else could manage the money and the administration for a percentage of the donations. I know there are things like this already, but as far as I recall they have been pledge things, not donate up front ones.
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