Not exactly sure how you read that from what I wrote. Maybe you were replying to someone else?
#1 is definitely not free. My company paid a bundle for that audit; far more, than if they had simply licensed commercial software.
#2 would require some kind of paid “middlemen.” The biggest problem would be that the money would not go to the authors, but to the auditors, instead.
Not exactly sure how you read that from what I wrote. Maybe you were replying to someone else?
#1 is definitely not free. My company paid a bundle for that audit; far more, than if they had simply licensed commercial software.
#2 would require some kind of paid “middlemen.” The biggest problem would be that the money would not go to the authors, but to the auditors, instead.