Ask About Proprietary vs. Open Source Code Quality

Scott Trappe is CEO of Reasoning, a company that has gained a certain amount of noteriety (and a Slashdot mention) by running its Ilumna automated inspection service on several versions of TCP/IP -- and concluding that the Linux version has fewer bugs than most proprietary ones. Why is this? Let's ask Scott, and also ask him any other question you can think of about software quality and how to achieve it since, after all, that's his business. We'll send him 10 of the highest-moderated questions and post his answers when we get them back.

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Re:Give due credit

[TheRaven64]

Didn't the TCP/IP code originally come from the FreeBSD project?

No. The Linux TCP/IP stack was written from the spec mainly by Alan while he was at Swansea. Haven't you seen the credit to SUCS in your Linux boot-up? That's the problem with graphical splash screens...