Editing Software bug (section)

=== Open source ===

[[Open source]] development allows anyone to examine source code. A school of thought popularized by [[Eric S. Raymond]] as [[Linus's law]] says that popular [[open-source software]] has more chance of having few or no bugs than other software, because "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow".<ref>[http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral-bazaar/ar01s04.html "Release Early, Release Often"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110514032650/http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral-bazaar/ar01s04.html |date=May 14, 2011 }}, [[Eric S. Raymond]], ''[[The Cathedral and the Bazaar]]''</ref> This assertion has been disputed, however: computer security specialist [[Elias Levy]] wrote that "it is easy to hide vulnerabilities in complex, little understood and undocumented source code," because, "even if people are reviewing the code, that doesn't mean they're qualified to do so."<ref>[http://www.securityfocus.com/news/19 "Wide Open Source"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929105937/http://www.securityfocus.com/news/19 |date=September 29, 2007 }}, [[Elias Levy]], ''SecurityFocus'', April 17, 2000</ref> An example of an open-source software bug was the [[Debian#2008 OpenSSL vulnerability|2008 OpenSSL vulnerability in Debian]].