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Re:Putty maintainer on his attitude towards security and ope... by rectang on Sunday December 12, 2021 @12:49PM (#29531742)
> And part of that is making all the necessary security tools available free of charge, because the more money they cost, the more companies will take a cost-benefit decision not to bother with them, neglecting the externalised cost of those knock-on effects of their insecurity on everyone else.

Boy if that doesn't ring true. Kudos to PuTTY's author for making it so easy and low cost to do the right thing that those profit-seeking automatons we call "companies" actually will.

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Re:Putty maintainer on his attitude towards security and ope... by mwcampbell on Sunday December 12, 2021 @02:23PM (#29532688)
The same logic applies to other concerns like accessibility, which is one reason why I'm making one of my contributions in that area [1] available as permissively licensed open source. It helps that my current funding source for that project also wants it to be open source.

[1]: https://github.com/AccessKit/accesskit

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