Comments on: Requirements for community funding of open source

By: Mike Linksvayer » So, how could programmers make a living?

Mike Linksvayer » So, how could programmers make a living? — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 17:50:44 +0000

[...] the last one, which has turned out to be insignificant so far, though perhaps there remains lots of experimentation before it plays [...]

By: Graue

Graue — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 19:20:07 +0000

Of the first four microPledge projects I clicked on, three said “License is closed-source” and one said “License is proprietary”. You can imagine how I contorted my mouth in an expression of disgust.

Cofundos is dedicated to open source, making it feel comfortable to me.

They require results under an “OSI approved open-source license”, though unfortunately this would seem to rule out public domain dedication.

By: Mike Linksvayer

Mike Linksvayer — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 21:55:41 +0000

Berwyn, thanks for the explanation!

By: Berwyn Hoyt

Berwyn Hoyt — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 20:27:02 +0000

Nice write-up, thanks. You ask how microPledge developers get chosen when there is more than one quote for the job. In most cases the answer is simple: whoever is both cheapest and quickest.

It only gets complicated when when one person is cheapest and another is quickest. In that case we project the current rate of pledges into the future to guess whether the pledges will meet the quicker guy’s more expensive target inside his development timeframe. If they won’t, we chose the cheaper guy. There are some other tweaks in the formula to handle extreme cases, but they are unusual.