24 Jul
2013
24 Jul
'13
7 a.m.
On 24. 7. 2013 5:20, Anthony Papillion wrote:
True. So perhaps we can say it is "less likely" to have glaring bugs than it's proprietary counterparts. Sure, bugs will be overlooked or outright missed in any project of size. But with more eyes comes a better chance of bugs and backdiors being caught.
There is a paper on discovering vulnerabilities in open source and proprietary software you might find interesting: Härtig, Hermann, Claude-Joachim Hamann, and Michael Roitzsch. "The Mathematics of Obscurity: On the Trustworthiness of Open Source." Workshop on the Economics of Information Security 2010. http://weis2010.econinfosec.org/papers/session6/weis2010_haertig.pdf Kind regards Martin