On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 3:24 PM, janI <j...@apache.org> wrote: > http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/05/coverity-report/
I'm not really confident that the numbers are bias-free. For example, when you look at open source projects, of any size, you are looking at a mix of projects that are active/inactive, ones where they are putting a premium on quality, and ones where they are not. But the important thing is because it is open source the person doing the scans has the access to all of them. On the other hand, when you scan proprietary projects, the ones behind firewalls, then you require cooperation from the software owner to do the scan. So this is a self-selected group, namely companies who have purchased Coverity. So these are proprietary products that are putting an emphasis on quality. An inactive proprietary product, or one that is not emphasizing quality, does not buy code scanning products. In other words proprietary products with really bad code are unlikely to included in this survey. -Rob --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
