Security record of open source and free software

"The Coverity report finds a slightly lower defect density of free software versus proprietary software; in the area of Web applications, however, the exact opposite result was found, which is essentially due to the security weakness of PHP."

https://www.esmt.org/sites/default/files/dsi_ipr5_engl-dt.pdf

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