Re:So I’m the guy who sent the t-shirt out as a thank you
by danielweber on Thursday October 03, 2013 @01:20PM
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I would think he avoided the concept of paying them by giving a gift instead, which sidesteps the concept of "pay" the same way an honorarium[1] would.
I was at a company where someone reported a security problem to the support team. I didn't quite believe it, but they got me on the phone, and within 10 seconds the guy had said the right words to tell me he had found something. So we fixed it.
What then? The company had no formal bounty system in place. I said we should send him something, so I got him an Amazon gift card and sent it to him along with a letter of thanks.
He said thank you back to us.
It all seemed good, but maybe it was just luck of the draw that an Internet mob didn't show up for me the next day.
I was at a company where someone reported a security problem to the support team. I didn't quite believe it, but they got me on the phone, and within 10 seconds the guy had said the right words to tell me he had found something. So we fixed it.
What then? The company had no formal bounty system in place. I said we should send him something, so I got him an Amazon gift card and sent it to him along with a letter of thanks.
He said thank you back to us.
It all seemed good, but maybe it was just luck of the draw that an Internet mob didn't show up for me the next day.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honorarium