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internetnews.com: Study Finds Fewer
Flaws in Open-Source Code

internetnews.com: Study Finds Fewer
Flaws in Open-Source Code
12/17/2003 07:16 PM

"Code quality in a version of the MySQL open-source database was found to be six times superior to that of comparable proprietary code, according to a recent study of open-source software products by tech development firm Reasoning..."




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