Re:Announcing the Windows Bounty Program
by runeks on Saturday July 29, 2017 @12:25PM
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> OSS can't afford to pay people to look for bugs and improve the overall software. But commercial companies can.
Software insurance companies can invest a part of the insurance premium on OSS in bug bounties. It’s a shame more people aren’t aware of software insurance, since OSS has several advantages in this area, for example that the source code is available to everyone, such that insurance companies can pay everyone in the world to find bugs in the software they’re insuring.
That’s a definite advantage. It’s not often that an insurance company has the opportunity to invite everyone in the world to help them assess the quality of what they’re insuring.
Software insurance companies can invest a part of the insurance premium on OSS in bug bounties. It’s a shame more people aren’t aware of software insurance, since OSS has several advantages in this area, for example that the source code is available to everyone, such that insurance companies can pay everyone in the world to find bugs in the software they’re insuring.
That’s a definite advantage. It’s not often that an insurance company has the opportunity to invite everyone in the world to help them assess the quality of what they’re insuring.