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Comment Re:Time to get over the 'land bridge' (Score 1) 259

by AP23 on Sunday February 25, 2007 @03:27PM (#18144960) Attached to: When Were the Americas Populated?

and that behavior has changed how?

Bug Hunting Open-Source vs. Proprietary Software 244

Posted by Zonk on Saturday October 07, 2006 @01:41PM from the i-am-a-big-fan-of-quality dept.

PreacherTom writes "An analysis comparing the top 50 open-source software projects to proprietary software from over 100 different companies was conducted by Coverity, working in conjunction with the Department of Homeland Security and Stanford University. The study found that no open source project had fewer software defects than proprietary code. In fact, the analysis demonstrated that proprietary code is, on average, more than five times less buggy. On the other hand, the open-source software was found to be of greater average overall quality. Not surprisingly, dissenting opinions already exist, claiming Coverity's scope was inappropriate to their conclusions."

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