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Ask About Proprietary vs. Open Source Code Quality

Posted by Roblimo on from the bugstomping dept.

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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  1. second post... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    unless there are hundreds of earlier posts...

    From the Future!

  2. So you're a CEO, huh? by jpsst34 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Are you hiring? First grovel!

    --
    How are you going to keep them down on the farm once they've seen Karl Hungus?
  3. Licenses by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I am a fan of the new fluffy-gpl license:

    http://fluffy.ecs.soton.ac.uk/

    It's like GPL but allows for selective de-restrcitioning. Check it out.

  4. funny thing..... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    funny thing is i read this 20 minutes ago ;-P

  5. Re:Proprietary v Open by tlahoda · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    friggin' vanilla pudding lover, you should be shot :)

  6. Re:Open. Source. Fucking. Sucks. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Oooo...can I work at your company? It's definately a step up from my company's "Code, because we can always find someone to replace you at a moments notice and leave you to live in the dumpster behind the building and survive on the crumbs left over from our $500 managerial lunches while wishing everyday that you had just said yes to the extra 60 hours a week of unpaid overtime without complaint."

    I can live with the threat that you'll rape my dog, castrate my mother, and shove a lampshade up my ass. Just as long as I'm not working so much overtime that makes all that sound like fun...