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Of course open source is better (Score:1)
. Economic theory suggests that, at least to first order effects, the ease of searching for problems in open source code offsets the improved quality making the practical security equivalent. (However other bugs are less.)
For details, see Security in Open versus Closed Systems - the Dance of Boltzmann, Coase and Moore [cam.ac.uk]. (From Economics and Security Resource Page [cam.ac.uk].)
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