Was this possibly some way to influence liability limitation? If you accept a $10 gift card, could that be argued as an acceptance of compensation?
Hopefully judges aren't that stupid / our legal systems so easily gamed
Not a lawyer, but the cynic in me assumes that it is legal bait: if someone at the company cashed the $10 gift card one could argue that compensation for damages has been accepted and no further liability applies. At least legally speaking, obviously this is completely morally bankrupt.
Any normal legal system should have an option for avoiding this, like "reasonable" compensation (reasonable would then be argued in court but I'm pretty sure you can find a lawyer who can argue a uber gift card is not).
I hope that happens to every company that simply updates terms of service by sending email...
Maybe this would work if the damage was $100.
But you would not get away from $mil of damages with a $10 voucher. The courts are not dumb and don't work like that.
I read somewhere that the 10$ gift card was for crowdstrike partners who are working to fix the issue, and not it's customers.
I'm having a really hard time lately distinguishing between memes and actual news. The news sound a lot more meme like than the actual memes.