Miro’s New Funding Model – Adopt a Line of Code

• opensource
• startups

This is great – a really clever way of raising funds for an opensource product (probably the cleverest I’ve ever seen). It’s cute, it’s sustainable, it’s absolute gold in the social web (I think it’s more interesting than Susan Boyle – even though hers was a heart touching moment). This is just so much cooler (and certainly a bit heart touching as well).

I’m now a proud new parent of Timbert (see below – at the moment he hasn’t taken my last name as I had to pay through paypal and it didn’t give me a chance to provide my details).

Miro is a great product so I am really happy to see them pull together such a great campaign. I must admit though I would have been tempted to adopt a line of code if the product had been something I thought was ordinary. And now we sit back and wait for someone to start running a similar campaign for some old COBOL banking system – that’d be a laugh

If you too would like to adopt a line of code, head over to the url below and for just $4US/month you can:

https://www.getmiro.com/adopt/

Update:

1. It looks like a lot of people are getting a line of code with the last name of Swartz which probably means a lot of people have having to use paypal.
2. There is an excellent post on the adoption campaign over at ReadWriteWeb

Now if you’ll excuse me I have to feed the little guy…