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US Government Studies Open Source Quality
anadgouda writes "US Department of Homeland Security has released a report on open source quality in an effort to study the security of open source. 31 popular open source packages were studied as part of this effort. From the article: 'Coverity's report, Stacking up the LAMP stack: a study of open source quality, was produced as part of a $1.24m, three-year DHS Science and Technology Directorate effort to evaluate and improve the security of open source.'"
Open-source software is a serious threat to this country. These terrorist schemes, or "development projects," as the terrorists refer to them, are designed to rot away the core values of our great nation that we hold so dearly. One in particular, known as "Linux," is especially suspect. It is "developed" by terrorists worldwide, many of which are communists, and many of which do not even support our great commander in chief! It is apalling! How can we trust the security of our nation to these rogue "developers?" Surely they may have hidden devices in their programs, hidden in elaborate matrices of computer programming, that when activated by the terrorists, will disable the software and send them all of our secret data! It can only be expected.
The terrorists are cunning, they are secretive, and they will destroy us if they have their way. This world-wide "open source" terrorist movement must be deconstructed and eliminated. There is no other way to protect our Great Nation! We say to you, as the purveyors of truth and all that is good, avoid this "open source" and its proponents like the plague! They wish to destroy everything we hold dear. You, my good American, are the first line of defense. Report users of "open source" to the authorities. Gather any information on them that you can. You may even consider running their dastardly "software packages" in your own free time, so that you may come to know your enemy - for knowledge is the greatest tool that we have in this fight.
Stand proud, my fellow Americans, and beware this new emerging beast. It will surely be the end of us all if we do not take action now.
Quoted from President George W. Bush's State of the Nation Address, January 2007.
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If these packages are used within the government, the security holes discovered are probably kept secret. National security and all that.
The parent is wasting valuable time on Slashdot that should be spent finalizing his Independent Study project for the College of Wooster. He has precious little time left.
Three years, $1.24 Million, and what do we got .....
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.32 defects per 1,000 lines of code, according to Coverity. The average for open source projects analyzed is .42 per 1,000 lines."
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The envelope please
"LAMP "showed significantly better software quality" above the report's baseline with an average of
Wow, LAMP is a pretty damn high quality stack after all....gee thanks Captain Obvious, we didn't really need those tax dollars for anything anyways.
if there is one group of people i trust to be able to accurately identify a quality product, it's the government.
go get it
It's called an explitive. Yes, realy, the word is an actual part of speach, though common usage has twisted it into meaning words that are unacceptable for publication. An explitive is a word that adds flavor to written or spoken communication that does not alter the meaning of that communication. Thank you for playing the grammar game, but please, understand what you're criticizing before you play again.
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The report must be closed source!