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Re: [News] Linux More Secure Than Windows (Another Take)

On Sat, 04 Nov 2006 08:29:14 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:

> Security on the open source road
> 
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| The cleanest program was XMMS, a Unix-based multimedia application.
>| It had only six bugs in its 116,899 lines of code, or 0.51 bugs per
>| thousand lines of code. Overall, the average defect density of all
>| the programs was 0.43 bugs per thousand lines of code. The most
>| widely used programs scored well under this average. The Linux
>| kernel code had an average of 0.33 bugs per thousand lines of code.
>| And Apache had 0.25 bugs per thousand lines of code
> `----
> 
> http://www.computerweekly.com/Feeds/RS/Articles/2006/11/07/219613/Security+on+the+open+source+road.htm

Funny how you missed this quote, which makes your headline look like
deliberate falisification.

"Ben Chelf, Coverity chief technology officer, said that, generally, it is
difficult to determine how well these open source programs compare with
their proprietary counterparts. In Chelf's experience, only a few
commercial products had been tested, so direct comparisons could not be
made, but the number of lines of code is not an indicator of quality."

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