We’ve written before about the fact that both Mozilla and Google have been offering cash bounties for people who find bugs in their browsers, and it’s also worth noting that the concept of bounties is spreading out across the whole FOSS landscape.
For example, Funambol has had good success with a bounty program focused on developers.
Now there is new data out about actual cash being paid by Google for its Chrome-focused bug bounty effort, and it’s clear that the program makes a lot of sense for Google.
Source:http://ostatic.com/blog/software-bounties-work-for-google-and-can-work-throughout-the-floss-arena
