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This is nuts. Why not send the guy a $10-50K check (or to a nonprofit of his choosing) as a bounty/thank-you/we-love-open-spource-PR thing? It would be one thi
by gowld 6y ago
This is nuts. Why not send the guy a $10-50K check (or to a nonprofit of his choosing) as a bounty/thank-you/we-love-open-spource-PR thing?
It would be one thing if there were trying to to hide it with closed source, but this was stupidly evil out in the open.
- ocdtrekkie 6y agoMy assumption is a program manager can relatively easily write a letter thanking someone for their insight and work, but that a significant amount of paperwork is entailed in sending someone a big check. It really depends what level this issue has made it up to for Microsoft. Did Satya hear about this? If the answer's no, money probably is hard to just disburse.