The Open Source Advantage in Secure Application Development

The views of proponents of the Open Source model are typified by Eric Raymond's argument that Open Source software is intrinsically more secure since its open nature lets a greater number of programmers view the source code and uncover potential security threats before they're released to the wild.

This article is not biast to either side, but describes the advantages of both open source and closed source, and why some people favor one over the other, it is also a good read.

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