-----Original Message----- From: opensource-admin [ at ] jcorporate [ dot ] com [mailto:opensource-admin [ at ] jcorporate [ dot ] com]On Behalf Of Sandra Cann Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 6:52 AM To: opensource [ at ] jcorporate [ dot ] com Subject: [Opensource] All Source Code Should Be Open Here is an article snip that was sent to me offlist that I thought you might find interesting: One bright spot in the industry, said Trappe, is open-source development, with its emphasis on people reading each other's code. The potential embarrassment of public ridicule is probably a powerful motivation to get things right--or even better, to write code that's impressively craftsmanlike, rather than merely good enough. "There aren't enough data points yet to be statistically significant, but what we've seen so far suggests that open source code may have much lower defect density than commercial software--about 1 defect per 10,000 lines, about three times better than we typically see," Trappe estimated. (Read "All Source Code Should Be Open" by Charles Connell:) http://eletters1.ziffdavis.com/cgi-bin10/flo?y=eTF50ELtce0E4K0suv0Af .... _______________________________________________ Opensource mailing list Opensource [ at ] jcorporate [ dot ] com http://mail.jcorporate.com/mailman/listinfo/opensource Archives: http://mail.jcorporate.com/pipermail/opensource/