The Debate
There is an ongoing debate on whether open-source software increases software security or is detrimental to its security. The arguments on either side are completely subjective and no relationship between number of vulnerabilities in an application and its open-source/proprietary status has been observed. Significant factors seem to be more along the lines of the age of the application, education-level of developers, number of developers/testers, project goals, and code complexity.
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