Coverity: one bug fixed every six minutes

Coverity: one bug fixed every six minutes

Any Coverity customer can continue to run the tool on free software and issue bug reports; the Coverity license agreement does not prevent people from communicating to others about the bugs it finds. When Coverity's contract is up, this is probably what will happen (full disclosure: my employer is a Coverity customer).

The situation is not analogous to BitKeeper in that there is no lock-in issue.

There may be an issue with patents that Coverity might hold, but as Bruce Perens has explained, it is safest for those of us in the field not to look for those patents (damages triple for "knowing infringement").