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Sharlin 27 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Curl will not accept vulnerability reports during ...

Except if you pay them for a support contract. So there is a way, and it's actually a pretty obvious way.

chaz6 27 days ago [–]

I wonder if the likes of Red Hat, SuSE and Canonical have a support contract as they are commercial redistributors.

inigyou 27 days ago | [–]

Probably not. Why pay someone who's willing to work for free? When he stops working for free, then you pay him. Open source is not exempt from economic principles.

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