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OS2 World.Com Bounty System => General Discussion => Topic started by: rdonnelly on 2008.10.19, 17:43:49

Title: What is the Bounty?
Post by: rdonnelly on 2008.10.19, 17:43:49
Hi,

Being new here, I was wondering if I can get a quick explanation of the Bounty and how it works?

Thanks
Title: Re: What is the Bounty?
Post by: BigWarpGuy on 2008.10.19, 23:31:41
I believe the bounty is something that has money that is paid to the person who ports and/or improves a driver or program for OS /2 and/or eCS. People donate money to a particular bounty to encourage others to try to port and/or improve a driver or program for OS/2 and/or eCS. I hope this helps. There are probably others with a more definitive answer to your question.  8)
Title: Re: What is the Bounty?
Post by: rdonnelly on 2008.10.19, 23:55:07
How many bounty hunters are in this forum? Are they willing to do windows ports?
Title: Re: What is the Bounty?
Post by: saborion2 on 2008.10.20, 00:12:27
Re:

Quote from: rdonnelly on 2008.10.19, 23:55:07
How many bounty are there in this forum? Are they willing to do windows ports?

I believe you will get an idea here (click on attached link and scroll down) as to the "List of Bounties".

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http://www.os2world.com/bounties


Hope this helps to answer your question and provide the information you are looking for.

Best regards.

Title: Re: What is the Bounty?
Post by: rdonnelly on 2008.10.20, 00:50:10
Does the money go to the bounty hunter or an OS/2 organization?
Title: Re: What is the Bounty?
Post by: Saijin_Naib on 2008.10.20, 01:12:45
The money goes to whoever completes the bounty to the satisfaction of the people who posted the bounty. For example, whoever compiles TerraIM under OS/2 to my satisfaction will get the 35$ I have sponsored the bounty with.
Title: Re: What is the Bounty?
Post by: saborion2 on 2008.10.20, 02:26:56
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Quote from: Saijin_Naib on 2008.10.20, 01:12:45
The money goes to whoever completes the bounty to the satisfaction of the people who posted the bounty. For example, whoever compiles TerraIM under OS/2 to my satisfaction will get the ($)35 I have sponsored the bounty with.

Similarly to the above quoted... an additional negotiated and "bank financed" sum will be agreed and made payable to the company or individual committing to complete:

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A Native OS/2 Port of IBM's Lotus Notes 8.0 and IBM's Lotus Sametime 8.0

http://www.iadb.org


Title: Re: What is the Bounty?
Post by: RobertM on 2008.10.25, 07:27:45
Hi rdonnelly,

A good starting point may be here:
http://www.os2world.com/component/option,com_smf/Itemid,63/topic,871.msg5807/#msg5807

Robert