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by artificial 3040 days ago
It isn’t necessarily that. What incentive do you have to risk your livlyhood for no compensation? For example there was a flaw with OpenSSL, the contributors would be on the hook for all the damages that businesses who used the affected software.

An operating system would be hundreds of thousands of dollars to buy. Look at how actual Engineers are licensed and bonded.