Magnatune sends check to GNOME Foundation thanks to Rhythmbox | Linux Today

Magnatune sends check to GNOME Foundation thanks to Rhythmbox

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Mar 4, 2010

“A long while ago, I pledged Magnatune to pay 10% of its sales
due to Rhythmbox (a fantastic music player for Linux), back to the
GNOME Foundation. Today, I wrote the check.

“Rhythmbox has really excellent integration with Magnatune (for
four years now!), which makes for a wonderful marriage between open
source and open music. The latest versions support Magnatune
memberships, for all-you-can-eat music support on Linux. Read more
about it here.

“Let me break down the numbers:

“Sales from Rhythmbox overall:

$7159 total sales
905 album sales”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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