Most open source software is better
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| The story is that Coverity ran 50 open source projects through
| its bug-checking system, as well as products from 100 proprietary
| makers.
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| "On average, open-source software is of higher quality than
| proprietary software," Chelf wrote. But 11 of the 15 top-rated
| programs were proprietary.
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| Sounds fair enough. Most open source projects are newer than the
| proprietary products they seek to displace. Chelf said one unnamed
| proprietary product in aerospace had one-fifth the number of bugs as
| any open source product out there.
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| But here's the thing. He can't say which one. The data is proprietary.
| So, in fact, is the data on all proprietary products. There is just now
| ay to know how buggy (or non-buggy) proprietary products might be. But
| you can know how buggy the open source projects are, because Coverity
| published those results on the Web.
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| So which side should you trust? Should you trust code that might
| really be best in class, or might be garbage? Or should you trust
| code that you can see, and whose performance in bug tests you
| can measure?
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| Your choice.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=809
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