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Open Source Versus Closed Source Security
Jason Miller, 2004-09-30

In the age old battle between open source and closed source operating systems and applications, can either of them really be considered more secure than the other?

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Open Source Versus Closed Source Security 2004-10-01
Anonymous
"Should there be a reason to believe that code that comes from a variety of people, unknown from around the world, should be somehow of higher quality than that from people who get paid to do it professionally?" -- Steve Ballmer
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"Should there be any reason to believe that a relatively small group of paid programmers working under the direction of a marketing machine can produce code approaching the quality of a global team linked by the internet, whose every line of code is subject to ruthless peer review, and whose only standard is excellence?" -- crunchie812

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