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Having been in both worlds, I don't think the median unpaid OSS developer is any more (or less) dispassionate about security outcomes than the median paid SWE. There's lots of "maybe someone should do this" in both worlds.

(With that said, I think it also varies by ecosystem. These days, I think I can reasonably assert that Python has extended significant effort to stay ahead of the curve, in part because the open source community around Python has been so willing to adopt changes to their security posture.)

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