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  Is Open-Source Code Really Examined for Security Any More Than Closed-Source Software?
Time: 18:55 EST/23:55 GMT | News Source: eWeek | Posted By: Robert Stein

The usually simmering open source vs. closed source debate boiled over recently following the leak of Windows source code on the Internet. And it boiled over here too. Some 95 percent of the response to my column on the Windows source code leak and what it might indicate about the value of closed-source code as a security technique said that I didn't get the point: Since open source is open, it gets a better code review. Anyone can get the source, look at it and find problems in it.

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