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Indie Pay-What-You-Want Bundle Reaches $1 Million 238

Spinnacre writes "The week-long Humble Indie Bundle, a pay-what-you-feel-adequate promotion, reached a million dollars in total contributions with just 50 minutes of sale time remaining. For a minimum price of a penny, gamers could get DRM-free downloads for World of Goo, Gish, Aquaria, Lugaru, Penumbra: Overture, and Samorost 2. The bundle gained great success immediately after being featured on sites such as Ars Technica and Slashdot for followup blog posts about game piracy and multi-platform gaming." According to this tweet from Steve Swink, the milestone means that several games will release their source code. In fact Wolfire is in the process of creating a public source code repository for Lugaru; Aquaria, Gish, and Penumbra: Overture are also due to be opened up within the next week.

Comment Yay (Score 2, Informative) 1

I was watching for the last 10 hours or so on Wolfire irc channel. :P First I was like it's not gonna happen, speed is just 7k$/h or so, and would go only to 930k$, but then it got more exciting. For long we thought it would go 5k short as it magically added 10k every 40 minutes exactly, and then it started going faster on 930k or so. Last 30k was no sweat, had over 2 hours left and speed was 20k/h then. That 30k was done in a hour, when someone finally cracked the straw with epic 3333,33 donation. Lugaru is now gpl.
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Submission + - Indie pay what you want Bundle Reaches $1 Million (wolfire.com)

Spinnacre writes: The week long "Humble Indie Bundle," a pay what you feel adequate promotion reached a million dollars in total contributions with only 50 minutes of sale time remaining. For a minimum price of a cent, gamers could get DRM free downloads for World of Goo, Gish, Aquaria, Lugaru and Penumbra: Overture and Samorost 2.
The bundle gained great success immediately after being featured on sites such as Ars Technica and Slashdot for followup blog posts about game piracy and multi platform gaming.

Comment Re:Ubuntu (Score 1) 279

What army systems? French navy had to close their connections, had to rely on faxes and phones and such... Also, French fighter planes had to stay on ground when flight plan databases got bitten by conficker... Army of Germany... Polices of Manchester... The list goes on. Also, the IT guys on armies should be pretty good. They are paid to, you know, do lots of important things...

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