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by redahs 3463 days ago
User donations earmarked for X phone model + Y OS version held in trust and paid out to the first developer who completes (X,Y) port of the OS as a one-time cash prizes, with Z% overhead taken out each donation to fund the central developers \ organization.
2 comments

> completes

This would have be defined carefully to avoid the device dropping out of support quickly.

Personally I think full-time work would be better than bounties.

Excellent idea. Reminds me of tip4commit.com or BitHub.

I also wonder if make sense for donator to be able to select their desired Z percentage.