Open-source bounty

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Examples of bounties

• 2018: Mozilla Firefox's WebRTC bug was submitted by Education First to platform for $50,000
• Sun MicroSystems has offered $1 million in bounties for OpenSolaris, NetBeans, OpenSPARC, Project GlassFish, OpenOffice.org, and OpenJDK.
• 2004: Mozilla introduced a Security Bug Bounty Program, offering $500 to anyone who finds a "critical" security bug in Mozilla.
• 2015: Artifex Software offers up to $1000 to anyone who fixes some of the issues on Ghostscript Bugzilla.
• Two software bounties were completed for the classic Commodore Amiga Motorola 680x0 version of the 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.
• RISC OS Open bounty scheme to encourage development of RISC OS
• 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.

  Examples of websites listing bounties for multiple projects

• Bountysource
• is an open source bounty marketplace which has awarded more than $735,000 through its platform since its launch in November 2017, as of January 2019. It has GitHub integration and allows OSS maintainers to add bounties to specific issues on their GitHub repositories, and award contributors for pull requests that solve the issue.
• is a decentralized bounty platform where users utilize DEV to crowdsource developer talent or perform developer tasks and earn DEV.
• is a bug bounty board for securing open-source code, where it pays users for finding and fixing vulnerabilities.
• is an issue-based bounty platform for open source projects. Anyone can fund specific issues of GitHub repo, and these bounties will be distributed to contributors and maintainers.