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Proprietary software should come with a warranty that covers security vulnerabilities for N years.
by Kinrany 4y ago
Proprietary software should come with a warranty that covers security vulnerabilities for N years.
- nradov 4y agoNothing is stopping you from requesting such a warranty from your vendors, and refusing to buy from those who fail to offer such a warranty.
- Kinrany 4y agoCoordination problems do.
- EugeneOZ 4y agoImagine a developer who has to spend 50-90 hours per month just to provide the promised security patches for each of the 5 products they have created and sold at least once.
- Kinrany 4y agoNo one is in a better position than that developer to make this maintenance burden lighter, so they're the one who should be incentivised to do that. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32286651 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32286651
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