$400 bounty started for "simple" OSS node.js module

Does this mean that there's a business here - kind of like a reverse groupon?<p>A group of people want X (digital content), and each will pay whatever they want to for it. Fulfillment is more likely the larger the "pot" becomes, and it's an all-out competition to see who wins the pot.<p>Any ideas for a tweaking of this business model that makes more sense?

This is more of a commentary on the kind of people that use node.js than anything else.

Is this common in certain OSS circles? I know stack overflow has a bounty feature, but I've never really seen this before.<p>I thought open source was about "scratching your own itch", not "here's $20, scratch me"

"Please be clear if you want to be down for the OG bounty"<p>OG as in original gangsta. Funny to see it used in a programming setting

I just tried to add $100 to the bounty from StartupsOpenSourced.com -- not sure if they'll accept it or not considering it's not necessarily coming from an individual, and they don't know me personally.

I don't know Node, but I know all major browsers support &#60;audio&#62; elements, so there must be audio support in V8 somewhere, right?

I for one thing think this whole JS for the server-side thing is just wrong (typeof(NaN) returns "number", what?), on the other hand NodeJS and V8 sound more like just a dumb single threaded daemon just had sex with a single threaded language engine and had a conjoined twin. I have to deploy half a dozen just to have a useful smallish app. Don't even mention all these callback non-sense. I like loops and processing return values just the way I've been programming for 8 years thank you very much.<p>Seriously, not every time there's some interests shelling out money pushing for whatever agenda they have, we have to fall for it. If it's bad, it's bad. Just say it and look away.<p>On the other hand, I can see $400 being something tempting for bootstrapping entrepreneurs like me...