[save_ferris]

I disagree, they’re designed to incentivize people not to sell such secrets on the black market. If this wasn’t true, these programs wouldn’t exist.

They’ve just gotten used to banking on people taking much less than black market value in order to avoid legal complications.

[saagarjha]

They're designed to disincentivize moral people from selling such secrets on the black market, and show that companies care about fixing bugs. Authoritarian governments will always be more than willing to offer large sums of money for such exploits.