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    Chapter 2. Open Source and Proprietary S... > How Proprietary Software Development...

    2.6. How Proprietary Software Development Has Changed Open Source

    Open source isn't magic, and developers aren't magicians. No developer is immune to security problems and bugs creeping into his code.

    2.6.1. Bugs/Security

    Free, open, proprietary, closed....Bugs happen. I think open source means fewer bugs, and people have written tens of thousands of words explaining how they agree or disagree with me. One thing I know I'm right about is that both kinds of code have bugs. Bugs persist longer in closed codebases, and their closed nature keeps bugs persistent.


      

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