Trend Micro: Open source is more secure
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| Antivirus vendor Trend Micro is claiming that open-source software is
| inherently more secure than proprietary software such as Microsoft
| Windows.
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| "Open source is more secure. Period," Raimund Genes, chief technical
| officer for anti-malware at Trend, said. "More people control the code
| base; they can react immediately to vulnerabilities; and open source
| doesn't have so much of a problem with legacy code because of the
| number of distributions."
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| Genes said open-source developers "openly talk about security," so
| patches are "immediate--as soon as something happens," whereas
| proprietary vendors with closed code have to rely purely on their
| own resources to push patches out.
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