“Reverse-Auction E-commerce Site Opens After Successful Beta
Test.“
“Cosource.com, the Cooperative Marketplace for Open Source,
today announced the official launch of their e-commerce site for
users and developers of Open Source software. The launch comes at
the end of their beta testing period, during which four separate
projects were completed. Developers of these projects, including
one developer based in Russia, were paid for their work via
Cosource.com’s collaborative funding mechanism, which allows buyers
to share costs of programming services rather than paying all costs
individually.”
“Our goal,” said Bernie Thompson, Founder and CEO of
Cosource.com, “is to empower users of Open Source software by
providing a reverse-auction Internet venue for pooling resources in
order to attract and do business with developers. The successful
beta program just completed proves that users and developers of
Open Source software from around the world can do business together
for the mutual benefit of everyone.”