Code Quality: Open Source vs. Proprietary 139
just_another_sean sends this followup to yesterday's discussion about the quality of open source code compared to proprietary code. Every year, Coverity scans large quantities of code and evaluates it for defects. They've just released their latest report, and the findings were good news for open source. From the article:
"The report details the analysis of 750 million lines of open source software code through the Coverity Scan service and commercial usage of the Coverity Development Testing Platform, the largest sample size that the report has studied to date. A few key points: Open source code quality surpasses proprietary code quality in C/C++ projects. Linux continues to be a benchmark for open source quality. C/C++ developers fixed more high-impact defects. Analysis found that developers contributing to open source Java projects are not fixing as many high-impact defects as developers contributing to open source C/C++ projects."
Re:Not a surprise (Score:5, Funny)
You can't even attribute a quote correctly.
Linus was the guy that said "Look what you did to my code! You @#$%&! I'm gonna @#)+-*&$! You. You &$(#*%+.
Re:Managed langauges (Score:5, Funny)
Apparently you missed the cyrpto flaws in Android 's Java crypto library from last year that exposed private keys. Apparently writing things in Java guarantees jack and shit.
No, writing things in Java guarantees your shit will be jacked.
Did you write your improvements in C+ ? (Score:5, Funny)
Your four-sentence comment has five glaring errors that make it obvious that you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. You very much remind me of the job applicant who told me he has experience in C, C+, and C++.