So it was an escrow account manager, and they went bankrupt. I’m surprised there isn’t an easier way to do this.
Bountysource Stole at Least $17,000 From Open Source Developers
Submitted 6 months ago by thequantumcog@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://boehs.org/node/bountysource
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surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 6 months ago
e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
Bountysource was owned by a company called The Blockchain Group and it looks like the parent company went bankrupt taking Bountysource down with them. Its hard to say if Bountysource could have survived if it wasn’t sold to some cryptocurrency companies.
MichaelTen@lemmy.world 6 months ago
What are the best open source bounty sites?
thequantumcog@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Many popular foss apps use Open collective
pipe01@programming.dev 6 months ago
I’m still waiting on 100 bucks
valid@lemmynsfw.com 6 months ago
gedaliyah@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I’ve been seeing a lot about this but I am not a programmer. Can anyone eli5?
nyan@lemmy.cafe 6 months ago
All software has bugs in it.
People were using this service to put up money to encourage programmers working on open-source software to fix specific bugs that were especially bothering them. For instance, if text in software X didn’t scale properly and that was a problem for you, you could use this service to offer $100 to programmers working on X to fix the text scaling. Once they got it fixed, they collected the money.
The service went bankrupt.
When it went bankrupt, some programmers didn’t get their promised payment for bugs they had fixed.
The money didn’t get returned to the people who had paid for the bug to be fixed, either.
So now both programmers and users have lost money because of this service, and everyone’s ticked off.
gedaliyah@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Thanks - that helps!