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ZDNet Confusing the Issue

Story: Study: Linux the Safest Out ThereTotal Replies: 0
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Abe

Dec 15, 2004
5:05 AM EST 		I don't understand the contradicting #s. ZDNet says one thing and internetnews.com says another. I don't trust ZDNet. I have the feeling that ZDNet is confusing the issue on purpose. See the links http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009-5489804.html & http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3448001 What kind of reporting is this? Is it on purpose or what is going on. See samples below

ZDNet: The research suggests that the Linux kernel scored better than run-of-the-mill commercial code. Proprietary software, in general, has 1 to 7 flaws per thousand lines of code, according to an April report from the National Cybersecurity Partnership's Working Group on the Software Lifecycle, which cited an analysis of development methods by the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University.

For a 5.7 million-line program, such as version 2.6 of the Linux kernel, that roughly adds up to between 5,700 and 40,000 flaws.

Internetnews.com: Commercial software contains 20 to 30 bugs for every thousand lines of code, according to Carnegie Mellon University's CyLab Sustainable Computing Consortium. That is the equivalent to 114,000 to 171,000 bugs in 5.7 million lines of code.

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