[dundee] Taylug Weekly Articles 8 - POMS

[gordon dunlop]

The Coverity study has inspected the Linux kernel, applications etc
and their statistics have been acknowledged in their accuracy. So
Linux has been thoroughly tested openly and the data being published.
The only unknown quantities are with Windows systems because they are
closed and Microsoft will not let anyone do analysis therefore it is
only guesswork and conjecture on the number of bugs per lines of code
within their systems. So Microsoft cannot claim it is more secure as
it is not open for scrutiny and therefore cannot prove it. At least
open source can say to the users of their software here is the data on
how buggy our systems are, users are being presented with facts and
not propaganda.

Gordon

http://www.internetnews.com/stats/article.php/3589361

On 02/02/2008, Gary Short <gary at garyshort.org> wrote:
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> The trouble with this sort of thing is that there is no internationally
> agreed standard by which software can be judged for security.
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> Cheers,
> Gary
> http://www.garyshort.org
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