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Re:Bug finding is slow in spite of many eyeballs by awalton on Monday February 23, 2015 @03:10AM (#9093200)
All four combinations exist in nature: Open source code with plenty of eyeballs, open source software with no eyeballs, closed source software with tons of reviewers, and closed source software with no no reviewers. It'd be interesting to see what the percentage break down is amongst these, but it probably wouldn't be surprising.

It's also another tick in the box as to why pre-checkin code review is so important - bad code is often immortal, and it can be really hard to patch out bugs if people have grown to rely on broken behavior, so it's best not to get yourself in that state to begin with.

Re:Bug finding is slow in spite of many eyeballs by amelius on Monday February 23, 2015 @04:23AM (#9093344)
Also interesting would be a breakdown by language. For example C++ versus Haskell.
Re:Bug finding is slow in spite of many eyeballs by deitcher on Monday February 23, 2015 @07:36AM (#9093928)
"bad code is often immortal." I have to remember to quote that!