Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 9th May 2006 18:01 UTC, submitted by dhaneshr
Coverity has released the results of a Homeland Security Department-funded bug hunt that ranged across 40 popular open-source programs. The company found less than one-half of one bug per thousand lines of code on average, and found even fewer defects in the most widely used code, such as the Linux kernel and the Apache Web server.
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2005-07-06
True, you'll have to look at a previous report ( http://www.coverity.com/news/nf_news_12_14_04_story4.html ), which claims that proprietary software typically has 20-30 bugs/KLOC.