open-source bounty

Bounties are usually offered as an incentive for fixing software bugs or implementing minor features.{{cite conference |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/315639032 |last1=Kanda |first1=T. |last2=Guo |first2=M. |last3=Hata |first3=H. |last4=Matsumoto |first4=K. |year=2017 |title=Towards understanding an open-source bounty: Analysis of bountysource |conference=2017 IEEE 24th International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER) |pages=577–578 |publisher=IEEE}} Bounty driven development is one of the business models for open-source software.{{cn|date=June 2022}} The compensation offered for an open-source bounty is usually small.{{cite journal |url=https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10664-021-09979-z |last1=Zhou |first1=J. |last2=Wang |first2=S. |last3=Zhang |first3=H. |last4=Chen |first4=T.H.P. |last5=Hassan |first5=A.E. |year=2021 |title=Studying backers and hunters in bounty issue addressing process of open source projects |journal=Empirical Software Engineering |volume=26 |issue=4 |pages=1–36 |publisher=Springer|doi=10.1007/s10664-021-09979-z |s2cid=254472802 }}

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• 2023: The Prettier Challenge{{cite web|url=https://algora.io/challenges/prettier|title=The Prettier Challenge|date=30 October 2023 |publisher=Algora, Public Benefit Corporation|accessdate=11 February 2024}} to write a Rust program that would pass 95% of Prettier test suite was completed within 3 weeks and awarded $22,500 to Biome contributors.{{cite web|url=https://biomejs.dev/blog/biome-wins-prettier-challenge/|title=Biome formatter wins the Prettier challenge|date=27 November 2023 |publisher=Biome|accessdate=11 February 2024}}
• 2018: Mozilla Firefox's WebRTC (Web Real-Time Communications) bug was submitted by Education First to Bountysource for $50,000.{{Cite web |date=2019-10-08 |title=Bountysource, Education First increase Mozilla WebRTC bounty to a whopping $50,000! |url=https://blog.canya.com/2018/05/03/bountysource-education-first-increase-mozilla-webrtc-bounty-to-a-whopping-50000/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191008103829/https://blog.canya.com/2018/05/03/bountysource-education-first-increase-mozilla-webrtc-bounty-to-a-whopping-50000/ |archive-date=2019-10-08 |access-date=2024-01-21 |website=CanYa Blog}}
• Sun MicroSystems (now owned by Oracle Corporation) has offered $1 million in bounties for OpenSolaris, NetBeans, OpenSPARC, GlassFish, OpenOffice.org, and OpenJDK.{{cite news |url=https://www.itnews.com.au/news/sun-sets-1-million-open-source-bounty-102229 |website=iTnews.com.au |title=Sun sets $1 million open source bounty |publisher=nextmedia |author=Shaun Nichols |date=30 January 2008 |access-date=11 June 2022}}
• 2004: Mozilla introduced a Security Bug Bounty Program, offering $500 to anyone who finds a "critical" security bug in Mozilla.{{cite web |url=https://www.computerworld.com/article/2566687/brief--mozilla-offers-bounty-for-bugs.html |title=Brief: Mozilla offers bounty for bugs |author=Linda Rosencrance |publisher=Computerworld |date=3 August 2004 |access-date=11 June 2022}}
• 2015: Artifex Software offers{{cite web|url=http://www.ghostscript.com/Bug_bounty_program.html|title=Ghostscript: Bug bounty program|publisher=|accessdate=14 July 2015}} up to $1000 to anyone who fixes some of the issues posted on Ghostscript Bugzilla.
• Two software bounties were completed for the Amiga AROS operating system, producing a free Kickstart ROM replacement for use with the UAE emulator and FPGA Amiga reimplementations, as well as original Amiga hardware.{{cite web|url=http://www.amiga.org/forums/printthread.php?t=55226|title=Amiga.org - Kickstart ROM Replacement (Phase II) Assigned|publisher=|accessdate=14 July 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101206191839/http://www.amiga.org/forums/printthread.php?t=55226|archive-date=6 December 2010|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url=http://www.power2people.org/projects/profile/6|title=Kickstart ROM Replacement (Phase II)|publisher=|accessdate=14 July 2015}}
• RISC OS Open bounty scheme to encourage development of RISC OS{{cite web|url=http://www.riscosopen.org/bounty/|title=RISC OS Open: All bounties|publisher=|accessdate=14 July 2015}}
• AmiZilla was an over $11,000 bounty to port the Firefox web-browser to AmigaOS, MorphOS & AROS. While the bounty produced little results it inspired many bounty systems in the Amiga community including Timberwolf, Power2people, AROS Bounties, Amigabounty.net and many more.{{cn|date=June 2022}}

• Bountysource
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• Business models for open-source software
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