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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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Lots of points missed... 2003-11-26
Penguinisto
1) Usually, (unless it's a critical flaw) the OSS community will wait to give the program maintainer a chance to release the patch him/herself. It makes more sense that way, sicne the source is trusted and the patch won't interfere with the overall plans of the maintainer.

2) Even if the thing i...

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