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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. It's about life by Amsterdam+Vallon · · Score: 0, Troll

    What is the meaning of life anyway?

    It's about doing your best, and doing it without harming others. This is the Open Source way. You collaborate with your "brothers" from all over the planet, all sharing a common goal -- The Destruction of Bad Software, specifically the code written in Redmond, Washington by Microsoft Corporation.

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    Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate. Ex-O'Reilly/MIT employee, now a full-time Google employee.
  2. MOD PARENT UP, (please?) by renehollan · · Score: 0, Troll

    Having worked with both Linux and BSD TCP/IP stacks, and at the kernel level in general (in both, BSD more so), I'd really like to know if he as addressed BSD at all, and if so, how it compares to other free operating systems.

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    You could've hired me.