Developers have quickly fixed many bugs in popular open-source packages that were flagged as part of a US government-sponsored bug hunt.
Coverity, which creates automated source-code analysis tools, announced late Monday its first list of open-source projects that have been certified as free of security defects.
A project funded by the US Department of Homeland Security has praised improvements in open source security, while outlining some common errors.
The most popular open-source software is also the most free of bugs, according to the first results of a US government-sponsored effort to help make such software as secure as possible.
Perl, PHP, Python and Samba have been commended for improving security in a report analysing over 250 open-source projects.
Non-profit organisations are keen to take advantage of emerging technologies such as social networking for fundraising and software as a service for administration, but a lack of perceived support options is keeping them away from open source software and focused on traditional providers such as Microsoft.
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