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    by Ben Pearson
    April 17th, 2014

    Coverity, a software quality testing company, evaluated nearly a billion lines of code and found open source code to have fewer errors than proprietary applications. In addition, Linux serves as a benchmark for the quality of open source as the average time to fix defects has decreased from 122 days to  six.

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