Miro Asks Users To "Adopt" Lines of Source 178
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from the pray-you-don't-get-refactored dept.
from the pray-you-don't-get-refactored dept.
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.'"
Re:$4 a line?? (Score:4, Interesting)
Hopefully companies are paying their developers more than $40 per day :).
Depends on whether those jobs have been sent overseas.
On a related note, I'm genuinely curious: what's the average salary for developers look like in the countries to which companies often outsource work, like India and China?
Re:$4 a line?? (Score:3, Interesting)
On a related note, I'm genuinely curious: what's the average salary for developers look like in the countries to which companies often outsource work, like India and China?
If this is to be believed:
http://www.payscale.com/research/IN/Job=Software_Engineer_%2F_Developer_%2F_Programmer/Salary [payscale.com]
Software Engineer / Developer / Programmer with 5-10 yrs experience makes a media salary of around 430k Rupees. (between 8.5k and 9k US.) Interestingly, 10-20yrs experience is actually lower. (I'd guess they've got less in demand skillsets.)
Re:Smart FOSS Marketing! (Score:0, Interesting)
Way to spam an unrelated link, dumbass.
Re:$4 a line?? (Score:4, Interesting)
We have a group in Shanghai - we've got pretty well qualified guys in our office, we pay them 14,000 RMB per month (~US$2,000). They get about 8,000-10,000 of that with the rest going to the government in payroll taxes.
More average developers come in at between 6,500 to 8,500 RMB per month.