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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

How do you think research for vaccines is funded? Someone pays for vaccines for deadly diseases eventually

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Preferably taxpayers. Not that that part of the analogy relates to Ubuntu.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

In any case, the company who makes the vaccines doesn't pay it. Ubuntu could make the argument you get the security upgrades if the government wants to pay for them