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Get the Facts Yourself, Redmond

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I went to Vincennes University on Tuesday to give a talk about the technological and business structure of Linux and open source software. There were about 70 students in the audience, and I think the talk went well. (At least no one passed out from sheer boredom.)

It was a mix of business and computer students, with the computer students comprising of about one part programmers and three parts system and network admins. Interestingly, during the Q&A session, it was the alpha male of the programmer gang who seemed to have the most trouble believing that Linux was a viable desktop solution, asking me if I really believed it was more stable than Windows.
I responded that in all my years of using computers, I'd only seen two full-blown system crashes on Linux, and countless blue screens of death on Windows machines. He indicated that the opposite was true--he'd seen plenty of kernel panics and only a few BSODs. This was one of those discussions best taken off-line, since the rest of the audience was getting quickly bored with the technical back and forth. Unfortunately, the kid left before I could ask him just how the heck he got so many panics--though I suspect it was due to his work as a programmer.

Clearly, though, the concept of open source had not impressed him or, it appeared, his cadre. Vincennes University as a whole, however, is very much embracing open source, having implemented it in quite a few IT courses with more plans on the way. Very exciting stuff.

After getting back to the home office, I found an anonymous note in the contrib queue of Linux Today (the page where I see all of the story recommendations sent in via the site). It was titled "Fake Microsoft Story?" and pointed to a URL on Microsoft Malaysia's Web site. I read it, and what was a good day became that much better.

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Also on same site:

Of the 32 projects evaluated Amanda, an open source backup and recovery project, had the highest number of bugs per 1000 lines of code. The initial evaluation found a total of 108 bugs, or 1.22 bugs per 1000 lines of code.

What happened next is truly remarkable. The Amanda development community, which includes several Zmanda engineers, quickly responded to address this situation. Within one week, Amanda developers fixed the entire list of identified bugs. As it currently stands, there are 0 outstanding bugs detected by the Coverity scan and Amanda is the most defect free open source project currently being evaluated by Coverity.

Open source developers have immense pride in the quality of the work.

That Full Story.

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