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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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There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch 2003-11-26
Anonymous
Point 1: "Who pays for fixes?"

The reason that most of the fixes come from the big companies is simple: The big companies (Red Hat, Suse, etc.) have *hired* the people that wrote the code in the first place.

It's silly to conclude that "there would be no fixes without the big companies." The c...

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