Hey, thanks for bringing this up, I had a link that I wanted to share.
It seems this exact idea has been tried in the past, with less than glamorous results.
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It seems this exact idea has been tried in the past, with less than glamorous results.
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On the technical side they had a lot of terrible code as a result of much of their 50 man staff being students doing an internship for free there. They also had a very bad attitude towards volunteer support staff, where, for example, an issue on the web site would be reported, the dev in question would say nothing, and when asked five minutes later would say "What problem, i see none?" after obviously having fixed it.
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