OK, so 25 blocks got orphaned, that's 25 times 25 BTC = 625BTC (or approx $29K at the time of the event) that miners worked hard for, and did not get paid for.
The miners on 0.8 did not have to switch back to 0.7, but they did so anyways, "for the greater good".
Are we going to compensate them in any way?
(Of course not, there is a limit to our willingness to cooperate. But I though it should still be mentioned.)
Disclaimer, I am a (minor) miner, but I only mine a few bit cents per day and mostly on Eligius so if I lost anything, it is not much.
Those 625 BTC seem like just a few people should've got them.
Divide those 625 by, let's say, 500 miners and see. It's actually not a lot.
If you were on Eligius, you didn't lose anything because Eligius is on 0.6.0 mainly.