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You can pay someone to improve open source tools, too.

• jiggy2011 12y ago
  There are hundreds, maybe thousands of programs that make up a full open source system and frequently they are maintained by different groups of people with very different situations as regards to motivations and funding. There's no reasonable way that anyone outside of a few big tech companies can possibly review all of these and ensure that funding is distributed appropriately.
  • lukeschlather 12y ago
    We are talking about bash here. There is no mystery about who to donate to. GNU has a pretty good approach to the problem you describe.
    • jiggy2011 12y ago
      It was bash this time, who knows what it will be next time?
  • XorNot 12y ago
    But relatively few of them are internet/user-facing in any given deployment. You only need to secure/audit the attack surface, not the whole stack.
    • jiggy2011 12y ago
      Until a few days ago , I would not have called bash "internet facing".