Open Code Has Fewer Bugs · Slashdot Mirror

Posted by michael on Thursday February 20, 2003 @02:15AM from the dawning-revelation dept.

ganns.com writes "Reasoning, which sells automated software inspection services, scrutinized part of the code of Linux and five other operating systems, comparing the number and rate of programming defects. Specifically, Reasoning examined the TCP/IP stack and found fewer errors in Linux. 'The open-source implementation of TCP/IP in the Linux kernel clearly exhibits a higher code quality than commercial implementations in general-purpose operating systems,' the company said in a report released last week. Reasoning also compared the code with that used in two special-purpose networking products and found it superior to one of them."

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Yeah right by Czernobog · 2003-02-20 02:22 · Score: 0, Flamebait

I'll never forget Mozilla's DHTML bug. I'm still using 1.2 and when it crashes, I quietly curse the lives of the developers and restart the damn thing.

Given enough eyes all bugs are shallow?
Yeah right.

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