Re:Bug finding is slow in spite of many eyeballs
by wolfgke on Monday February 23, 2015 @07:51AM
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> Whereas closed source proprietary software has no eyeballs on it. Open source is at least an opportunity to identify problems by third parties without reverse-engineering. Open source also allows code analysis tools to do automated tests across wide numbers of codebases.
Shared source (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shared_source) also has these properties (but not the freedom properties of open source).