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Idea #5: Donate via PayPal to up your idea

Written by thom.mp the 10 Apr 09 at 04:26. Related project: Nothing/Others. Status: New

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This will allow for all sorts of new business models in open source. You can literally buy influence over certain open source projects. So if a company really wants a certain feature, they pay the developers to implement that idea over others. This would definitely not be for every project, but for some, it would be a godsend of a revenue stream. This is a really radical idea so please discuss.

Tags: business donate paypal

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healthyelijah@gmail.com wrote on the 11 Apr 09 at 05:00

I like part of this idea. I like that this could somehow qualifies the voters as having some basic level of competency and makes the votes a bit more valid.

I haven't played with Ideatorrent yet because my host doesn't support postgresql so maybe ideatorent already has some measures in.

In the long run, vote authenticity is huge!

Caglow wrote on the 14 Jun 09 at 01:22

I personally would not use it. However, I can see how it may be useful for those lacking funds. Still, I'm not sure how well it will do as a core feature. Perhaps make it a plugin?

intelligen wrote on the 24 Aug 10 at 23:25

This is a really nice idea, but I think it needs some tweaking. One cent is far too low for a vote.

Even if people don't go around stuffing ballots, the transaction fees will consume more than the amount of money sent.

A dollar per vote (or a configurable price) would be more appropriate. You would really need to find a balance between the value of an unpaid vote vs. a paid vote. As Caglow pointed out, this balance would vary from developer to developer.

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