Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 20th Sep 2005 17:38 UTC
Mozilla has reacted to a Symantec report issued on Monday which said serious vulnerabilities were being found in Mozilla's browsers faster than in Microsoft's Internet Explorer. The study was conducted over the first six months of 2005. Tristan Nitot, president of Mozilla Europe, hit back by claiming on Monday that when a vulnerability is found Mozilla's "ability to react, find a solution and put it into the user's hands is better than Microsoft."
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2005-07-13
I suppose this actually leads to an interesting study that could be done.
Someone should gather all the data for the lifetime of the IE codebase and for the mozilla code base. Then do some analysis to see if problems are found faster and if they are fixed faster.
The bugs and security holes for an open source software should be high after first and then slop down twords zero as the coder base grows and the product matures.
The closed source software should be low at first then then either rise and level out or keep going up because errors will be found later through trial and error.
That is what I believe it will show if your statements are true. Then again IE vs FF is a bad example because the user base is not similar in size and the overall life time of the codebase is not the same.
Is there any opensource vs closesource that could be compared? I cannot think of any. Linux vs Windows has the same issues as above.