Apple: Open-source heritage will protect Tiger
Apple says it is counting on the open-source heritage of its operating system to spare Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) from the security woes that have plagued Microsoft. Bertrand Serlet, senior vice president of software at Apple, said today that having a greater number of people working on the source code leads to better software security. “A lot of security problems derive from the core,” he told CNET News.com.
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