DHS report: Open-source code "quality" is up

Courtesy Digg Linux/Unix upcoming  Wed, 05/21/2008 - 03:01

A U.S. Department of Homeland Security-sponsored project has not only discovered that the quality of open source software code has improved significantly over the past two years, it has debunked a widely held assumption that longer function strings within source code are associated with an increased number of code defects.

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