More Than 10% of Mozilla Bug Finders Refuse Cash 115
angry tapir writes "The open-source Mozilla project has been offering cash bounties for security bugs for six years now, but often bug finders simply turn down the cash. Between 10 percent and 15 percent of the serious security bugs reported since Mozilla launched its bug bounty program have been provided free of charge, according to Mozilla."
Job may not allow you to accept cash bounty (Score:5, Informative)
If one were to find the bug in the course of one's job, the employer may not allow you to accept a cash bounty. This is certainly the case in the US Federal Government, as well as many Federal Contractors.
Re:More evidence... (Score:2, Informative)
Y'know if they wanted to refuse the cash... instead of letting Mozilla keep it, have them donate it to the charity of their choice. Just sayin'.
Maybe you should read the article?
"A lot of people would say, 'Don't worry about it. Donate it to the EFF [Electronic Frontier Foundation] or just send me a T-shirt,'"
Re:15% is not a lot (Score:1, Informative)
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/How_to_get_a_stacktrace_for_a_bug_report
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Bug_writing_guidelines
Re:More evidence... (Score:5, Informative)
Source [timesonline.co.uk] And, California registration by the Mozilla Foundation as a charitable trust [mozilla.org].
Re:More evidence... (Score:3, Informative)
b) Talking about socialism, good thing we don't have unions in software industry or they wouldn't look too kindly on all these people working for free.
Re:Job may not allow you to accept cash bounty (Score:3, Informative)
The situation may also become marginal or not worth the effort for foreigners to accept the cash, if they need to hire a tax lawyer to deal with foreign income, as most countries don't consider foreign prizes ("windfall") or "bounties" as tax-free (or zero-rate tax rate) income.
Let alone you live / work in a country that is not trusting of US Government and US organizations (think: Cuba, China, Philippines, Latin America), may consider it "proof" of being a spy. Why else would some foreign US non-profit organization group just "give" you money, you capitalist whore?