Coverity: one bug fixed every six minutes
Coverity: one bug fixed every six minutes
Posted Apr 3, 2006 17:44 UTC (Mon) by iabervon (subscriber, #722)In reply to: Coverity: one bug fixed every six minutes by bk
Parent article: Coverity: one bug fixed every six minutes
The Coverity thing is somewhat different because they have a government contract to provide this service, and they aren't exposing any of their IP to do so, so they can't go nuts over licensing.
And, of course, the BitKeeper situation turned out to be a net win for free software, since adopting BitKeeper greatly improved productivity, and adopting git again improved productivity. Alternatively, it convinced Linus that version control could be done better than CVS did it, so it was worth trying to do better than even BitKeeper did it.
