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Re:Microsoft Offers Bug Bounty to Prevent Another Spectre-Me... by mkagenius on Saturday March 17, 2018 @10:50PM (#16610271)
The government should let go the taxes on such bugs (not all).
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Re:Microsoft Offers Bug Bounty to Prevent Another Spectre-Me... by icebraining on Sunday March 18, 2018 @06:43AM (#16611286)
Why should the government subsidize the cleanup of the messes created by these companies? That's like subsidizing BP for cleaning up their oil spill.
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Re:Microsoft Offers Bug Bounty to Prevent Another Spectre-Me... by mkagenius on Sunday March 18, 2018 @09:49PM (#16615680)
Not subsidizing, I was talking about the income tax on the researcher. Something which affects the whole population. It’s like someone finding a bug in a paracetamol and government rewarding him by not taxing the money he received from pharma companies. Not a great analogy but you get my point.
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Re:Microsoft Offers Bug Bounty to Prevent Another Spectre-Me... by icebraining on Monday March 19, 2018 @05:18PM (#16623294)
Giving a tax break for a payment is the same as subsidizing the entity giving that payment.
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