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Shuttleworth Explains Why Open Source is More Secure than Closed Source [VIDEO]

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Sean Michael Kerner
Dec 31, 2014

“The great thing about open source is that it’s so dynamic and has so much innovation, that we have much more diversity in our ecosystem than there has ever been in the proprietary ecosystem,” Shuttleworth said. “You’ll never stop security issues from occurring in either open source or proprietary software but you deal with issues faster in open source.”
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