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Opensource Code More Refined Than Closed?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the no-surprise-here dept.

zonker writes "In this poorly titled cnet story (as opposed to an earlier story stating a similar theme), a company named Reasoning says that at first open source code has marginally worse quality than closed source code of the same maturity, but it tends to become better refined through the open-natured development process than closed source. They mention Apache and Linux as examples, however they don't mention the 'competitors' they tested against by name. ."

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  1. Re:Biased Reporting by TrollBridge · · Score: 4, Funny

    You're new here, aren't you?

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  2. To use the new nomenclature.... by GillBates0 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Ofcourse Open Source code is better than Open Sores code!

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  3. Re:It makes sense ... by hconnellan · · Score: 2, Funny

    You will get the proof when people send in bug fixes (patches).

    To ensure your program has a high level of contribution make sure that it is extremely useful to developers (e.g. IDE/profiler/debugger etc) and it has a number of annoying but easy to fix bugs.

  4. Re:My electric kool-aid acid test: 'pwd' by shoppa · · Score: 2, Funny

    Can God create a hierarchical file system so deep that he cannot 'pwd' in it?

  5. That's what I call the "Shame Factor" by JCCyC · · Score: 2, Funny

    If you write bad closed source code, all the developers in the company will se it.

    If you write bad open source code, the entire fscking world will see it.

    More shame -> more incentive to write clean, solid, well-commented code.