It's not a 'great funding model' - frankly, few nonprofits spring to mind that have found one; my main criticism of this lies in long term interest - the succes

It's not a 'great funding model' - frankly, few nonprofits spring to mind that have found one; my main criticism of this lies in long term interest - the success of this is buzz-based, and like million dollar homepage, that's going to pass, maybe sooner than they expect; but it is a nice implementation of an innovative way to get donations and build attachment to something so obscure and (to the end user) abstract as the code running software. Miro will garner a lot of goodwill with this offbeat stunt, that's bound to be a good thing. now, who's going to start selling 'adoption' of modules/objects/libs that get incorporated into lots of other projects? "Hi Daddy, here's where I've made myself useful this month (links to projects where the snippet is found on google code/sourceforge/github/etc). By the way, my biological father/mother has another kid up for adoption!"