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US Government Studies Open Source Quality

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Saturday March 4, 2006 @07:18AM from the prefer-just-to-stay-off-of-dhs-radar dept.

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.'"

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./ it self by Anonymous Coward · 2006-03-04 07:30 · Score: -1, Offtopic

What happened did /. slashdot itself?
Re:So, by Anonymous Coward · 2006-03-04 07:46 · Score: -1, Offtopic

What's the point of the "So" at the start of your sentence? It doesn't give any more information. It doesn't even elaborate on or give emotion to any other information in your sentence. Try removing it - you will find your sentence works just as well.