Merchants of Vulnerabilities: How Bug Bounty Programs Benefit Software Vendors

E Gal-Or, MZ Hydari, R Telang - arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.17497, 2024 - arxiv.org
Software vulnerabilities enable exploitation by malicious hackers, compromising systems
and data security. This paper examines bug bounty programs (BBPs) that incentivize ethical …

[PDF][PDF] Sponsorship Funding in Open-Source Software: Incentivize or Crowd-Out Motivations to Create, Maintain and Share?

PK Medappa, MM Tunc, X Li - researchgate.net
This study investigates the effects of sponsorship-based funding on open-source software
contributors' behavior. We examine how sponsorship impacts contributors' creation and …