Re:The development enviroment (Score 4, Interesting)

And, in addition to the environment, what motivations within the different environments affect how bugs get found, and what reward there is for finding them?

For example:

• Do you think (your opinion, of course) that open source original authors are more motivated to create fewer bugs because their code will be read by others?
• Or perhaps that open source finds an academic (or similar) niche and one can obtain academic (or similar) stardom by finding bugs?
• Finally, from these motivations, how do you think motivation itself could improve in proprietary software's ability to fix bugs? (Provided motivation is indeed the problem, and proprietary software does, indeed, tend to have more errors).