Okay, so the sale is over. And all the sales are going to an open source project… to be determined by you.
So, how were the results?
In a word: weird.
Being as people could set their own price, I figured the results would be all over the map.
From the moment I announced all the sales would be donated… things got crazy.
For the first 6 hours…. not one sale. Which was weird, being as sales were fairly good up until that point.
Then… a flood of sales. For between 1 cent and 1 dollar each. Most being closer to 1 cent.
Ya know what? That’s okay. I let people set their own price. I knew that would happen at least a little.
Here’s the thing though… sales under 33 cents… equate to 0 cents. The processing fee per transaction is 33 cents… so… yeah.
The net result: $145. (Thanks to everyone who paid more than 33 cents!)
It’s not a ton, but it’ll still be helpful to some project!
So what lucky project gets it? Here’s a few recommendations:
GetDeb.Net – These guys package up a ton of software for Ubuntu and make it easily available.
Ardour - An absolutely amazing audio workstation package for Linux.
Linux Mint – One extremely cool (and great looking) Linux distro.
Any other project is open as well! So cast your vote here in the comments of this thread.
April 12th, 2009 - 12:11 am
My vote goes to Ardour.
April 12th, 2009 - 12:14 am
Sorry about those results. I would have bought a copy, but I don’t have any money lieing around. (I also would have felt bad downloading it for $.01, so I didn’t). But good luck on future ventures.
April 12th, 2009 - 12:16 am
Linux Mint is a amazing project so i vote it
April 12th, 2009 - 12:16 am
Oh, and if I’m allowed a vote, I would love to support getdeb.net. They are my one-stop-shop for great free ubuntu apps.
April 12th, 2009 - 1:04 am
I would donate to Ardour. If there can be a top-of-line audio application that is better than anything on any other platform, maybe more people would switch to Linux. We need more professional-grade applications that can compete.
April 12th, 2009 - 1:04 am
My vote goes to Linux Mint. I’ve reinstalled at least 30 times over the past month or 3 and I kept going back to Mint and eventually just stayed with it. Ubuntu done right.
April 12th, 2009 - 9:53 am
What about the wine project? Unless you can come up with a super great reason not to give money to those guys, I’d like to see the money go there.
April 12th, 2009 - 12:38 pm
I payed $4 for Radical Comic Designer, and I would love to see Ardour get it. Linux Mint? Nah, we got too many distros as it is, and even though they have offered a bit of improvement over Ubuntu, a good audio tool is missing on Linux. Badly. Also, some of Linux Mints included software is from GetDeb, so..
April 12th, 2009 - 12:54 pm
Ardour, totally.
April 12th, 2009 - 11:37 pm
My vote goes to Linux Mint. They put out quality work time and time again. It is great to have that everything-works distro. And Mint is supported by sponsors, donations and some ad revenue while devs are volunteers who put in a lot. I think they deserve it.
April 14th, 2009 - 5:30 pm
There’s a book called “Predictably Irrational” by Dan Ariely. I haven’t read it all, but I read some of the excerpts.
In the book, he tells the story where they surveyed Lawyers, asking “will you work on a Senior Citizen’s estate for $40 an hour?” All the lawyers said no. $40 ? My time is worth more than that! Weeks later, they asked the same lawyers: “would you mind doing some free pro-bono work for some people in need? It’s a group of Senior Citizens needing help with their estates.” All the lawyers said, yes. Of course, we’d love to donate help the elderly!
His point is: The moment you assign money to something, it changes the social situation drastically. Money effects the expectations for receiver and giver.
Bryan, it sounds like you did a similiar kind of experiment, whether you knew it or not.
April 16th, 2009 - 10:33 pm
What about the ReactOS Project? They take the Wine code, write a kernel layer compatible to NT, and make a FOSS OS binary compatible to Windows NT (NT 5.2 being the current target).
http://reactos.org
I definitely believe this project deserves the money…
April 23rd, 2009 - 5:25 pm
I’d go for ardour, I’ve used the other two and I know how awesome they are, but we *really* need some awesome audio software.