I wonder how many defects there are in 1,000 lines of code for electronic voting machines? Perhaps open source would be of benefit there...
That out of the way, when it comes to the legal defense; Open Source has little to stand on. For example, the whole point of Android was to be Open Source and freely disemenated; yet apparently Google is paying $9 in royalties to MSFT for every device using Android.
Doesn't this obliterate any superiority to the Open Source movement? Chances are that no matter what you do, someone has patented it.
open source developers (anti-capitalists) are hosing small software companies by releasing software to the public produced at no cost.
as someone that has had to ‘compete’ against open source offerings, it’s a major pain in the butt
if anyone is wondering why software development is being pushed to 3rd world countries, you can thank the open source community as the business types continue to try and compete by cutting costs
Coverity basically builds things like Static Analysis tools. SA has its place - but it’s well to point out what is meant by “quality” here.
Maybe it’s a bit like commenting on the quality of the Golden Gate Bridge (or the Bay Bridge) by inspecting each and very weld on the bridge.
It’s not unimportant data, but it has very little to do with architecture, design, functionality, etc. etc.