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Ending the Free Lunch
Hal Flynn, 2003-11-26

Linux vendors spend money building security bug fixes. How much longer will they give them away for free?

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Ending the Free Lunch 2003-11-26
Anonymous
Here's my answer:

Security updates cost money in development time, organizational effort and distribution (i.e. bandwidth). It makes sense though that security fixes should be free if someone pays for the operating system.

Users who have not paid for the operating system should not be entit...

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