So. What. $40,000 is something that a senior SDE could pay out themselves without flinching. A trillion dollar company like MSFT should do better than that fo

So. What. $40,000 is something that a senior SDE could pay out themselves without flinching. A trillion dollar company like MSFT should do better than that for something so severe. Put another way: just because the researchers didn't (publicly) complain doesn't put MSFT in the right here. There are more than a few kernel developers who didn't raise hell about Linus' abusive behavior. Yet even Linus himself realized his behavior had to change.