Coverity's open source code audit efforts are funded by the US government (video)


 
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Coverity's open source code audit efforts are funded by the US government (video)

08-09-2008 06:00 AM
Coverity famously helps open source projects audit their code and eliminate security holes and other bugs, and earns its corporate income by selling software that does the same thing to proprietary software companies. Few seem to realize, though, that Coverity started doing free open source code audits because it got a grant from the US Department of Homeland Security. Coverity's David Maxwell explains.



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