Security on the open source road
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| 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
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http://www.computerweekly.com/Feeds/RS/Articles/2006/11/07/219613/Security+on+the+open+source+road.htm
Related:
Trend Micro CTO hints that Trend will Open Source Code
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| In a stunning revelation in Trend Micro: Open source is more secure,
| Trend CTO Raimund Genes hints that Trend may release their code as
| an open source project!
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http://blogs.technet.com/security/archive/2006/06/14/435960.aspx
Security Report: Windows vs Linux
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| Finally, we also include a brief overview of relevant conceptual
| differences between Windows and Linux, to offer an insight into why
| Windows tends to be more vulnerable to attacks at both server and
| desktop, and why Linux is inherently more secure.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/security/security_report_windows_vs_linux/
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