00938nas a2200121   4500008004100000022001400041245004900055210004900104260004200153520056700195100001900762856003500781       2007                        eng d  a1913-610200aEnsuring the Quality of Open Source Software0 aEnsuring the Quality of Open Source Software  aOttawabTalent First Networkc11/20073 aOpen Source Software (OSS) has been embraced by individuals for decades, but only recently have organizations around the globe looked upon open source as an attractive and practical alternative to proprietary software. In addition to its appealing price tag, usually free, OSS can be inspected, modified, and freely redistributed according to the terms of its license. 

In spite of this, open source developers still find their code quality and security challenged by a question that has followed them from the beginning: "If it's free, how good can it be?"
1 aMaxwell, David  uhttp://timreview.ca/article/58