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Coverity catches X Window Security Hole

Coverity catches X Window Security Hole

Posted May 2, 2006 22:18 UTC (Tue) by jwb (guest, #15467)
Parent article: Coverity catches X Window Security Hole

I love how this story highlights the great benefit of free software. If you or your company are considering using free software in a critical role, you can hire Coverity to analyze the code before you use it. You would not be able to do so with proprietary software unless you were large enough and wealthy enough to get the vendor to disclose the source code to you.


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