Miro Asks Users To "Adopt" Lines of Source

soDean writes "The FOSS video player / downloader Miro is asking its users to support development by 'adopting' a line of source code for $4 a month. Each adopted line of code comes personalized with a little avatar character that will grow older over the year. PCF, which makes Miro, says they think the project is the first of its kind and they believe it's a chance to 'to have a truly bottom up funding base.'"

what happens

[binford2k]

when your line of code dies?

Where's Sally Struthers?

[Anonymous Coward]

"For only $4 a month, you can give this line of source clean electricity and information to process and grow."

Re:what happens

[Chabo]

Or maybe if someone decides to deprecate your method just to spite you?

Revolutionary

[curtix7]

the end of one line if statements and ternary operators as we know them.

Re:what happens

[rolfwind]

when your line of code dies?

It gets buried properly, it gets inserted into the Duke Nukem Forever project.

Re:what happens

[CrimsonScythe]

I just adopted this little gem:

}

I hope they won't port it to Python any day soon, though...

Comments?

[bughunter]

Do I get a discount if I adopt a comment?

Re:Comments?

[AcidDeath]

Do I get a discount if I adopt a comment?

Only if its inaccurate and misleading.
So yes.

Re:what happens

[cstdenis]

Too late.

You'll have to settle for:

        try:
or
        else:

I have been gypped

[DarkIye]

// This is line #273523

Re:Doesn't bode well

[ShawnCplus]

// This line of code brought to you by Error Establishing Database Connection

rent?

[mevets]

If I adopt a line, can I charge other lines rent for using it?

There's the signpost up ahead...

[Marko DeBeeste]

...You've just crossed from "Creative" to "Cute." Next up: An endless stream of tote bags.

Forget adopt a child...

[sourICE]

Why support a child when I can support i++?

Cheap trick...

[Paaskonijn]

I get this on the page:

Hello there! It looks like you are visiting from Europe

Did you know that there are more Miro users in Europe than in the United States, but more than 99% of our financial support comes from American donations and philanthropies?

Europe loves open-source, right? Help us make something great!

Sounds like they're trying to cash in on our hatred for the U.S. :)

Re:Smart FOSS Marketing!

[hansamurai]

Hey, you haven't seen how much my company pays me to write one line of code.

Re:Where's Sally Struthers?

[TerribleNews]

Oh, yeah, my parents adopted a line of code in Beliz or Botswanna or something and they kept getting printfs from him ever month and then one day they decided to go visit him in his village and when they got there it turned out he'd been commented out years ago and his parents had been keeping the $4 and writing fake output. True story.

Having used Miro

[Fnord666]

Having used Miro, I want to adopt the following line:
10 REM

Re:what happens

[GumphMaster]

Just adopt:

while (true) {

and all will be well

Re:what happens

[nospam007]

Not to mention that I already own tons of files full of lines with 'old' code.
The room is full of it, some lines have even beards.
Why adopt another one is beyond me.

Re:what happens

[Darinbob]

Is this the Tamagotchi model of development?