Homeland Security helps secure open-source code

Great News: "The effort will help put open-source development on a par with
commercial software efforts"

No it will exceed the commercial software efforts, combing with
the "many eyes" reviews currently conducted which has already
shown to be above par.

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The conclusion is the result of a four-year research project
conducted by code-analysis company Coverity, which plans to
release its report on Tuesday. The project found 985 bugs in the
5.7 million lines of code that make up the latest version of the
Linux core operating system, or kernel. A typical commercial
program of similar size usually has more than 5,000 flaws or
defects, according to data from Carnegie Mellon University.
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http://news.com.com/Security+research+suggests+Linux+has
+fewer+flaws/2100-1002_3-5489804.html

This information will also be public, vastly superior to the
hidden claims of security improvements many "commercial
software efforts".; Posted by: Richard Flude Posted on: 01/10/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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That caught my eye too Still Lynn | 01/10/06

Great News Richard Flude | 01/10/06

Good thing they outsourced it Jack-Booted EULA | 01/10/06

Double Good Thing... SGT_Spam | 01/11/06

Interesting Thought LinuxHippie | 01/11/06

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