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Code Quality: Open Source vs. Proprietary

Posted by Soulskill on from the put-your-money-where-your-code-is dept.

just_another_sean sends this followup to yesterday's discussion about the quality of open source code compared to proprietary code. Every year, Coverity scans large quantities of code and evaluates it for defects. They've just released their latest report, and the findings were good news for open source. From the article: "The report details the analysis of 750 million lines of open source software code through the Coverity Scan service and commercial usage of the Coverity Development Testing Platform, the largest sample size that the report has studied to date. A few key points: Open source code quality surpasses proprietary code quality in C/C++ projects. Linux continues to be a benchmark for open source quality. C/C++ developers fixed more high-impact defects. Analysis found that developers contributing to open source Java projects are not fixing as many high-impact defects as developers contributing to open source C/C++ projects."

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  1. Code Quality Sucks on Either by hackus · · Score: 1, Troll

    Yeah, I have seen the source code to the Windows 7 OS, CISCO's iOS and LINUX of course.

    They all suck equally.

    However, that being said, I am currenrlty running a version of the LINUX OS I built and modified for my customers use in a PostGRES server which is quite large.

    Open Source wins again because I can correct the suck. :-)

    --
    Got Geometrodynamics? Awe, too hard to figure out? Too bad.
  2. Re:Managed langauges by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    As someone forced to use programs written in Java, I feel like my shit was packed.