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Apache 2.1 -- StrangeApache 2.1 -- StrangePosted Jul 1, 2003 22:09 UTC (Tue) by pate (guest, #10)Parent article: Reasoning Releases Results of a Software Code Audit of the Apache Web Server Any idea why they tested a development snapshot of apache for comparison against 'several proprietary equivalents'? Unless their comparison was made against pre-release versions of proprietary code, this seems like FUD rather than real information. On the other hand, the reports are interesting, and could be of value to the apche developemnt community in finding and stomping on bugs. Hmm, maybe Reasoning should look at GCC. -pate
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Apache 2.1 -- Strange Posted Jul 1, 2003 23:45 UTC (Tue) by iabervon (subscriber, #722) [Link] Because they were specifically trying to determine if OSS gets written better, or if it gets debugged more effectively. The conclusion seems to be that there is not a significant difference in development, but that OSS becomes more stable as it matures. Of course, this makes sense under the "many eyes" theory, since a development version will contain a lot of code seen only by the author so far. They'd already done a study of mature software and found that OSS was substantially better, and they wanted to determine if OSS programmers were just more careful or something, or if the process caused it to improve over time.
Apache 2.1 -- Strange Posted Jul 3, 2003 17:26 UTC (Thu) by mmealman (guest, #9223) [Link] That would be a true assessment if say they compared Apache 2.1 with the beta of ISS or the beta of some other commercial software. The summary of the study on their website didn't mention what they compared Apache to however.
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