Free and Open Source Software-Choices and responsibilities.

Peter Gutmann pgut001 at cs.auckland.ac.nz
Sun May 7 02:21:04 PDT 2006


Sarad AV <jtrjtrjtr2001 at yahoo.com> writes:

>Developers have been quick to fix many bugs found as part of the program.
>More than 900 flaws were repaired in the two weeks after Coverity announced
>the results of its first scan of 32 open-source projects. "

Does anyone know more about what Coverity does?  Their web site basically says
"Give is bucketloads of money and we'll talk to you under NDA", but their
"Products" link is broken, and even then it's hard to tell whether they just
run ITS4 and filter the results (OK, it's a spinoff from the MC Checker work
so it's more sophisticated than that, but having to sign an NDA just to find
out what it is they do seems rather counter to the academic origins of the
work).

Peter.





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