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Old 12-12-2009, 08:40 AM   #1
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LXer: Research Shows FOSS Bugs Get Rapid Response, Commercial Software Not So Much


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Not that this should surprise anyone familiar with the open source community, but a new study shows bugs in open source software get fixed more quickly than issues in commercial software. Technology news Web site V3.co.uk got an early look at the results of research conducted by application security firm Veracode, which indicate "security issues in open-source software typically take less than a week to remediate and report on, or three man hours of effort."

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