Coverity benefits, too...
Coverity benefits, too...
Posted Apr 3, 2006 17:04 UTC (Mon) by rst (guest, #5098)In reply to: Coverity: one bug fixed every six minutes by bk
Parent article: Coverity: one bug fixed every six minutes
As others have noted, Coverity wouldn't do immediate damage to free software projects if they stopped reporting new bugs. But they would do damage to themselves --- they'd lose the free advertising, and feedback from an interested set of (effectively) beta test users on the quality of the results from whatever new tests they toss in. Which seems at least as much of a lose for them as the loss of reports on new bugs would be for, say, the Linux kernel developers.
(Also, the problem with BK was the abusive conditions in the "free" license. Coverity couldn't pull the same kind of stunts right now even if they wanted to --- since they're not distributing their code at all, they haven't got the lever that the BK license gave Larry).
I'm not saying this relationship couldn't go sour, but it seems a whole lot more pleasant than the BK situation, so far.