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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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