The open source Mozilla project has been offering cash bounties for security bugs for six years now, but often bug finders simply turn down the cash.
Between 10 percent and 15 percent of the serious security bugs reported since Mozilla launched its bug bounty program have been provided free of charge, according to Mozilla.
Depression-era bank robber
Last year, Microsoft stopped making new versions of Microsoft Money, their personal money management software package—and now they’ve made it available for everybody for free… well, sorta.

IE is the only major browser that has still not patched a bug which allows hackers to hijack Web mail accounts and steal data, says security researcher.