Miro asks users to adopt lines of source

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Submitted by soDean on Tuesday April 28, 2009 @04:10PM

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.""
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Random line of code? (Score:1)

by SolarCanine (892620) writes:

With my luck, I'd get

$i--;

and I really don't feel that's worth $48 at ALL.
refactoring? (Score:2)

by Timothy Brownawell (627747) writes:

What happens when someone's adopted line of code gets refactored out of existence?
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  by Jeremy Visser (1205626) writes:
  
  True, and even if you adopt a function or whole source file, they can still be zapped with a simple svn rm. I also wonder how you'd keep track of the line within the source file. I guess a simple /* This line adopted by Joe Bloggs 2009-04-29 */ would suffice.

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Miro asks users to "adopt" lines of source

Random line of code? (Score:1)

refactoring? (Score:2)

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