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A Tale of Four Kernels

spinellis.gr — An analysis of the source code of four systems, FreeBSD, Linux, Solaris, and Windows, by collecting metrics in the areas of file organization, code structure, code style, the use of the C preprocessor, and data organization.

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  • robermann79, on 06/03/2008, -0/+0We analyze the source code of the four systems by collecting metrics in the areas of file organization, code structure, code style, the use of the C preprocessor, and data organization. The aggregate results indicate that across various areas and many different metrics, four systems developed using wildly different processes score comparably.
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    Therefore, the most we can read from the overall balance of marks is that open source development approaches do not produce software of markedly higher quality than proprietary software development.
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