Interesting quote from Coverity about FOSS implemented in Java: http://www.newswire.ca/en/story/1339341/coverity-scan-report-finds-open-source-software-quality-outpaces-proprietary-code-for-the-first-time The Coverity analysis found that developers contributing to open source Java projects are not fixing as many high-impact defects as developers contributing to open source C/C++ projects. Java project developers participating in the Scan service only fixed 13 percent of the identified resource leaks, whereas participating C/C++ developers fixed 46 percent. This could be caused in part by a false sense of security within the Java programming community, due to protections built into the language, such as garbage collection. However, garbage collection can be unpredictable and cannot address system resources so these projects are at risk. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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