"What is the most important difference between open-source and proprietary software development? That's a secret--although not in the way that you might think.
"As I mentioned yesterday, many proprietary software vendors believe that secrecy is an important ally in battle to protect the security of their products. When Coverity uses its code-analysis tools to hunt bugs in a proprietary app, for example, the results--and the response--are usually kept under wraps..."