Its a silly argument at best.

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No_Ax_to_Grind 26th Nov 2007

Lets not kid ourselves, he is talking about Microsoft when he says proprietary. My bet is that Microsoft has a lot more people looking and working with the code than does Samba. If it comes down to "many eyes", Microsoft has the advantage.

While I agree that internally half the bugs are found, and I suspect the same is true of Microsoft and their review process.

In general this is one of the things that puts me off on anything open source. The claims of better security simply is not born out by the facts. Open source code has had as many reported "bugs" as anything else and when guys like Jerremy refuse to accept that fact it tells me they are full of themselves and not being honest.