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Re:Team Fortress 2 source code has leaked by josefx on Thursday April 23, 2020 @01:40AM (#22953134)
Afaik it had the opposite effect for OpenSSL. Not only was the code so bad that it would crash if ran with a secure malloc implementation. Due to being free and open source nobody felt the need to donate[1], with only one developer employed to work on it full time.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/04/tech-...

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Re:Team Fortress 2 source code has leaked by _pmf_ on Thursday April 23, 2020 @10:49AM (#22956626)
Well. eventually someone looked at it. And probably Heartbleed has been used a long time before it was published.
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