Googler gets paid for squashing Microsoft bug

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Published 15 Jul 2013

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Google has, for as long as I can remember, run a program whereby people who find bugs in their code get paid money. Microsoft only recently started such a program, and in a cruel twist of irony, the first person to report a bug and get paid to do so was a Google employee. The bug had to do with Internet Explorer 11, in case you were wondering, so chances are it wouldn’t have affected anyone reading this because you’re either using Chrome or Firefox.

[Via: The Verge]