Some interesting news in the Open Source software world this week. South African gazillionaire Mark Shuttleworth (founder of Thawte) has decided to see if he can get some Mozilla bugs that annoy him fixed by a pretty straightforward approach — offering cash bounties to the first person to submit a working fix.
Will this be enough to spur someone to take up his challenge? We’ll see, but it’s another interesting data point in the “how to fund Open Source development” discussion. [Seen on MozillaZine]
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