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Coverity's open source code audit efforts are funded by the US government
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| Coverity famously helps open source projects audit their code and eliminate
| security holes and other bugs, and earns its corporate income by selling
| software that does the same thing to proprietary software companies. Few seem
| to realize, though, that Coverity started doing free open source code audits
| because it got a grant from the US Department of Homeland Security.
| Coverity's David Maxwell explains.
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http://www.linux.com/feature/142672
Related:
Coverity to Regularly Scan Security and Quality of 250 Open Source Projects
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| This is the first time that Coverity is focusing on improving the
| quality of end-user professional applications such as the open
| source Blender 3d suite used to create computer animation in
| movies. Other projects to be analyzed include the GNU Image
| Manipulation Program (GIMP), an open source photo retouching
| package, and Inkscape, a vector graphics program. The new
| expansion is in response to the spread of open source software
| into all areas of the world economy, including the multi-billion
| dollar industry around professional graphics software.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/cnw/070501/ca_coverity_projects.html?.v=1
Most open source software is better
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| The story is that Coverity ran 50 open source projects through
| its bug-checking system, as well as products from 100 proprietary
| makers.
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| "On average, open-source software is of higher quality than
| proprietary software," Chelf wrote. But 11 of the 15 top-rated
| programs were proprietary.
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| Sounds fair enough. Most open source projects are newer than the
| proprietary products they seek to displace. Chelf said one unnamed
| proprietary product in aerospace had one-fifth the number of bugs as
| any open source product out there.
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| But here's the thing. He can't say which one. The data is proprietary.
| So, in fact, is the data on all proprietary products. There is just now
| ay to know how buggy (or non-buggy) proprietary products might be. But
| you can know how buggy the open source projects are, because Coverity
| published those results on the Web.
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| So which side should you trust? Should you trust code that might
| really be best in class, or might be garbage? Or should you trust
| code that you can see, and whose performance in bug tests you
| can measure?
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| Your choice.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=809
Leading Open Source Software Projects Eliminate Bugs Every Six Minutes After
Coverity Scan
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| Department of Homeland Security research by Coverity shows open
| source developers on 32 most popular projects fix defects on
| average every six minutes within first week of results posted publicly
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http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060403/sfm027.html?.v=44
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