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> Insultingly low. Oy. Not that I am going to pretend that I know what the dollar value of Sclafani's time/effort should be, but I have a hard time believing
by StevenRayOrr 12y ago
> Insultingly low.
Oy.
Not that I am going to pretend that I know what the dollar value of Sclafani's time/effort should be, but I have a hard time believing that $20,000 is an insult. Just because he could get more money by exploiting the bug -- or showing others how to exploit it -- doesn't necessarily suggest to me that he should get paid more than he did.
- argonaut 12y agoThe price you can get for something == its value.
- nbm 12y agoThat's not totally accurate - sometimes you're exchanging more than just the item in question, for example, putting yourself in danger. In other words, if you can sell an item for $100k if you follow a set of laws (a government's, an organisation's, a community's, or your own), but you could sell the item without doing so for $500k, the item is still really only worth $100k (to you), but the (physical/societal/moral) danger involved in selling the item illegally that goes with it is not worth $400k to you. Or, put another way, the item may be valued at $500k (to some potential buyer), but the legal buyer of the item is offering not to put you in danger in exchange for $400k.
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