$100k donation to the Internet Bug Bounty

Re:$100k donation to the Internet Bug Bounty by jsiepkes on Friday July 21, 2017 @04:42PM (#14823627)

I'm surprised their donating this amount. I mean as far as I know they are VC funded and atm don't make a profit? Or am I mixing things up here?

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Re:$100k donation to the Internet Bug Bounty by thephyber on Friday July 21, 2017 @05:04PM (#14823749)

They are, but they also host any OSS project for free, which is the only reason I know about the brand "GitHub". I think you severely underestimate how valuable that mindshare can be. Also, they depend heavily on products which depend on OSS projects for their product.

It only makes sense that GitHub would want to reinvest in security for their own supply chain. The only problem is that most other companies don't do enough of the same.

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Re:$100k donation to the Internet Bug Bounty by __s on Friday July 21, 2017 @05:27PM (#14823852)

Related blog on why VCs might invest more liberally in projects like GitHub (or npm): http://words.steveklabnik.com/is-npm-worth-26mm

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