While some just talk about the quality of open source software, Red Hat said it’s actually doing something about it. Commercial Linux vendor Red Hat announced at the company’s annual Red Hat Summit last week that it is launching a project directed squarely at quality assurance.
Apparently, the quality of big open source projects is pretty good. Ontop of that, the developers respond well to flaws:
http://scan.coverity.com/
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/applications/0,39020384,39261434,0…
Seeing a vendor like Redhat put software engineers on open source QA only solidifies my stance on open source quality in the bigger projects.
Well, except for Firefox. And a host of other popular but bug-ridden junk that gains popularity over competing quality software.