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This is fairly meaningless, what is classed as a "defect" for example? Not all bugs are equal. What about comparing code that has similar requirements and has
by jiggy2011 13y ago
This is fairly meaningless, what is classed as a "defect" for example? Not all bugs are equal.
What about comparing code that has similar requirements and has similar numbers of users.
Of course Linux is going to fare well against BS corporate software that was made primarily to satisfy some middle manager.
Likewise open source is going to include a lot of stuff written by college students that nobody actually uses.
Would be more interesting to compare Linux with similar parts of the NT core for example.
- gd1 13y agoEven worse, not all lines of code are equal. Across languages, but also within them. C/C++ can be terse or verbose depending on style and the subset of features employed.