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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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The Cost of Ending the Free Lunch 2003-12-06
Anonymous
I totally agree. Vendors offering their version of an open source product protect the future of it by contributing security patches for it.

The instant a vendor starts charging for security fixes for their OS, you'll probably see a mass exodus to the one(or many) that provides them for free.

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