@SuperDicq It came to me in a dream.

I remember reading an article about the error rate of the GNU project and how it turned out to be surprisingly low, although I can't remember the name of the site.


On a related note, there was one study that compared the reliably and error rate of the coreutils of many different proprietary Unix's and GNU and found that; "The failure rate of the public GNU utilities was the lowest in our study, at only 6%."

https://users.cs.northwestern.edu/~robby/courses/395-495-2009-fall/fuzz-revisited.pdf

It's a real shame that the authors of the study made many errors and also compared GNU coreutils running on a proprietary Unix with GNU coreutils running on GNU/Linux without even realizing that, but the results speak for themselves.

Unless the specific binary was compiled wrong, GNU software hasn't ever failed me thus far.