Alan Cox warns on security of open-source code

"Things appear in the media, like 'open-source software is more secure, more reliable and there are less bugs.' Those are very dangerous statements," Cox said.... The Software Quality Observatory for Open Source Software (SQO-OSS) is funded by the European Commission and it launched on Monday. Cox told delegates that metrics must not become targets.

Read this in ZDNet UK and Matt Asay's post on this.