Pay for your Open Source software!

March 13, 2009 in Computers | 5 comments

(CC) Cofundos.org

(CC) Cofundos.org

Sound’s stupid, doesn’t it? Isn’t Open Source usually free, you don’t need money for it..

How about if the application, feature or plugin you need has never been written so far with Open Source licences? How to find the developer who’s the skills to write it – even if you had money? Or if you have a great idea and 10 of your friends support it and are ready pay, say 20€ each for someone to write it?

Cofundos is the answer. It’s a platform to publish your innovations, tell that you’re ready to pay for the solution, make an offer to realize the blueprint and so on. It’s designed for open source software: openID login, free licences and RSS’s and so on – it’s made for YOU!

The picture shows you the steps from an idea via bids and offers to the finalized project and donated money. Everyone wins!

I think Cofundos should be better known and more used for it to actually work so spread the word! Share your idea there, maybe others like it, too!There’s something similar in brainstorm.ubuntu.com but brainstorm doesn’t involve money.

Two best payed projects in Cofundos are:

Two projects I can warmly recommend:

Can you find anything interesting there you could bid to? Maybe 5€, maybe 50€, maybe 100$? Maybe spread it in 5 projects and bid 20$ each? Or if you have the skills, check if there’s a perfect project waiting for you tagged with MySQL, Drupal or GTK+?

Go to Cofundos.org

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  1. ploum’s avatar

    ploum on March 13, 2009 at 4:37 pm

    No. I don’t like that idea. It means that the “specialists” are tight to a bidders vote, that they have no guarantee of money. A bit like the Iphone Apple applications stuffs. I really don’t like that idea.

  2. Andrea’s avatar

    Andrea on March 13, 2009 at 5:28 pm

    I would like to see this system integrated with the “Ubuntu Wanted” project and, of course, Brainstorm and Launchpad for bounties of bugs and feature request.

  3. Anonymous’s avatar

    Anonymous on March 13, 2009 at 6:44 pm

    One of the problems I noticed with Cofundos: a bidder has to pay for whatever solution the group of bidders votes for, even if that bidder doesn’t believe the solution meets the requirements.

    The more general problem: systems like this don’t seem to work, in that projects sit around with money bid for them but nobody ever works on them.

  4. Mike’s avatar

    Mike on March 13, 2009 at 10:34 pm

    There is also a service called bitloot (http://www.bitloot.com/) which has recently started up which does much the same thing

  5. MnJoe’s avatar

    MnJoe on March 13, 2009 at 11:41 pm

    It seems that there is no developer activity in any project …