This is the most idiotic comment I've ever read on hacker news. "The free market"? What? What does that have to do with anything?
Vendors are extremely incentivized to fix bugs and thereby maintain user trust. Google regularly pays out generous bounties for bugs that are reported properly.
There are the odd cases where a bug is reported and the company denies it, sits on their hands or threatens the reporter. Those should be made public. But the author makes no mention of that having happened here, and Google is in fact the last company I would expect to behave that way.
Vendors are extremely incentivized to fix bugs and thereby maintain user trust. Google regularly pays out generous bounties for bugs that are reported properly.
There are the odd cases where a bug is reported and the company denies it, sits on their hands or threatens the reporter. Those should be made public. But the author makes no mention of that having happened here, and Google is in fact the last company I would expect to behave that way.