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Of course, an SME company will not hire a developer to constantly perform security checks and apply patches for an important library libImportant. What will ha
by snowpid 3y ago
Of course, an SME company will not hire a developer to constantly perform security checks and apply patches for an important library libImportant.
What will happen is that company A will hire company B to do this and assume liability for it. If we set the annual cost of this at 100k, the monthly cost is about 8333 EUR. Let's say company B has 20 customers to protect the security of libImportant, that is 416 EUR per month and SME can afford that. There are OS that are of course used more frequently and that scales much better (i.e. cheaper per month). I actually see a new market niche here and perhaps they will find resourceful entrepreneurs.
- bluGill 3y agoOnly if there are enough companies interested in the project. Will company B support cppcheck like that? I prefer kde to gnome, but my company won't pay for kde support when gnome already comes from some contract they have - at least kde is large enough that I expect someone to offer support - there are other desktops that are not popular and now have even less hope of breaking in.
- FredPret 3y agoEntrepreneurs are meant to solve real problems, not self-inflicted bureaucratic ones.
- snowpid 3y agoSecurity is a real problem.