Tag: BOUNTY

Google has been offering bounties to encourage the developer community to find weaknesses in Chrome for some time. In July of 2010, Google bumped the maximum payment amount for a single bug to $3,133.7 (see what they did there?) to sweeten the deal. Six months later, and they've finally had to pony up. Sergey Glazunov has become the first person to report an "elite" bug in Google Chrome -- which ...

A couple weeks back we reported on Colin Nederkoorn and the bounty he started to get Windows XP and OS X dual-booting on the new breed of Intel Macs. At the time of that posting the bounty was up to $4,000; this week it has finally surpassed $10,000, which I think is what it'll take to get some serious hackers seriously interested. In the meantime, one self-proclaimed Computer Guru has posted ...

A blogger by the name of Colin Nederkoorn has jump-started a bounty to get Windows XP to boot on the new Intel-based Macs. He began with $100 of his own money and as of this posting it's up to more than $4,000 donated by various individuals and companies. The rules of the contest stipulate that the resulting system must dual-boot, and if no success is had by March 23, the bounty will go to ...

The Participatory Culture Foundation has launched a new site called Bounty County where they list coding bounties for free and open source software. The current bounties are everywhere from $30 to $4,500 for tasks great and small and can be navigated by project, bounty amount, and platform. New bounties are added every day. ...