ZDNet is reporting that open source coders' speed astounds Coverity. This is in reaction to the speed with which potential bugs reported by Coverity have been cleaned up.

"My impression is that the open source community is producing software defect patches at an extremely fast rate," Ben Chelf, the chief technology officer at Coverity, said in the statement.

Samba is mentioned specifically, too.

Samba, a popular open source project used to connect Linux and Microsoft Windows networks, showed the fastest developer response, Coverity said. The number of flaws was reduced from 216 to 18 in one week and to zero in two weeks.