[callalex]

That’s not equivalent at all. Paying off criminals creates an incentive for there to be more criminals. Paying more security researchers does not incentivize people writing buggy C code to write even buggier C code.

[KirillPanov]

Your analogy is all messed up: paying off criminals doesn't make houses harder to break into.

[cuu508]

Raising compensation creates an incentive for there to be more bug hunters.

[flangola7]

Which is good