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Open source software and reliability/security: Opinion
zThe
$64,000 (,000? ,000,000?) question: How
does the reliability/security of open source
code compare to that of proprietary code?
yArgument
for superiority:
xLinus
Torvalds [attributed, in The Cathedral and
the Bazaar]:
“Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.”
xThe
Cathedral and the Bazaar
•Eric
Raymond
•O’Reilly,
1/15/02 (revised edition)