Bounties

Open Source Funding Site microPledge Calls for Help — In the open source world, “software bounties” are a familiar concept — money is raised for a developer to implement a new feature, write documentation, or create a new piece of software. Since it launched last August, Christchurch, New Zealand-based microPledge has been providing a free platform for the management and collection of software bounties for open source software projects. But unless they can raise enough money to make a significant change to their payment system, they might have to shut down. microPledge, which has just about $30,000 in pledged software bounties across over 280 projects from over 1,200 users,... [Tags: assumption, bounties, christchurch new zealand, co founder, credit cards]

Grayskull writes "The OS/2 and eComStation community are trying to get open source software ported to that platform by opening bounties and allowing people to chip in with prize money. Currently the most important open bounties are Java 6 port, Icon routines in OS/2, VirtualBox port, Extend multimedia and OpenWengo ports."Read more of this story at Slashdot.... [Tags: bounties, bounty system, ecomstation, grayskull, open source software]

EA Tender Offer Killed in Liberty City Hit and Run — Electronic Arts’ highspeed pursuit of Take-Two Interactive Software and the bounties of its “Grand Theft Auto” franchise has ended in a set of flat tires. This morning EA allowed its $2 billion tender offer for the rival video game maker to expire. For a third time. In a letter to Take-Two Chairman Stuart Zelnick, EA CEO John Riccitello said he no longer believes EA can integrate Take-Two ahead of the this year’s all important holiday season. Which is presumably just fine with Zelnick, who has repeatedly bashed EA’s $25.74 a share bid as too low and its acquisition strategy as... [Tags: acquisition strategy, bounties, ceo john, electronic arts, flat tires]