Blizzard? Diablo 2 got a patch just this year.

I get what you're saying, it's nice that they're doing this, but it's not really so much a goodness of the heart thing as it is that there is a super critical bug to many versions of Windows and there happen to be enough XP machines around that they're a significant threat. The bugs are big enough and the threat great enough that there's probably less cost in patching than there is in dealing with any of the potential fallout.

I don't remember their name. They're a small RTOS vendor based in San Diego. Maybe 8 years ago, we were using their previous (i.e., not under current development) RTOS, and we hit a bug. We called them up, asking for them to create a fix. My boss mentioned that our support agreement had lapsed (expecting that he would have to send them a check to get them to work on it). They said, "Doesn't matter. We wrote it; we'll fix it."

I would gladly give them credit by name, if I could just remember who they are...

That's a mighty big assumption that they're doing it for free. It's very possible they have enterprise customers who paid, and now they're releasing for everybody.

Dunno for sure because I'm not familiar with their practices here. But it's a thing.

I'm sure you could find some oss projects

Certainly not the people whose code is much older than 16 years and not simply declared EOL for profit reasons.

Small price to pay for having dominated the OS market for decades, by forcing OEM's to always only ship their OS...