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Non-Free competitors

Non-Free competitors

Posted Mar 9, 2006 1:19 UTC (Thu) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330)
In reply to: Non-Free competitors by drj826
Parent article: Some notes from the Coverity survey

Coverity works on source code, and proprietary software vendors are not in the habit of giving out their source code. A number of proprietary software companies use Coverity in-house, but they don't tend to let the world know how many bugs are found (though hopefully they fix the bugs).


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Non-Free competitors

Posted Mar 9, 2006 10:15 UTC (Thu) by ewan (guest, #5533) [Link]

They hand out their source when the alternative is to be exluded from government contracts on grounds that uninspected code can't be trusted. Microsoft at least have been doing it for some time.


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