Re: Questionnaire on motivation analysis of open source and open content
Google Docs operates using nonfree Javascript code. Is it possible for people to fill out your questionaire without running that nonfree program? I don't know, but I guess not. This illustrates the difference between the free software movement (which GNOME is associated with) and open source. For the free software movement, free software is ethically distributed software and nonfree software is an injustice we aim to escape from. For open source supporters, it's just a matter of software development methodologies. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use free telephony http://directory.fsf.org/category/tel/ ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Questionnaire on motivation analysis of open source and open content
On Tue, 2012-02-21 at 13:48 +0200, George Tsinarakis wrote: Dear Sirs, We are researchers in Technical University of Crete and our current research is in the field of motivation analysis of open source and open content software projects participants. We would like to ask you to fill a questionnaire and forward it to people involved in such teams and projects. The web address is the following: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dHdqZUgyay0waXNRbWFvV3hleVBZSWc6MQ I found your questionnaire confusing. You use the word commercial in various questions. Do you want to say proprietary software as an opposite of free and open source software? I chose not to answer the questionnaire after I got to the middle of it and considered that it is mostly misleading and that probably no good information can be derived from it when you're asking questions with wrong premises. I think you need to understand the subject better and ask for feedback of your questions before making a questionnaire. Regards, Luciana Fujii ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Questionnaire on motivation analysis of open source and open content
On Thu, February 23, 2012 1:44 pm, Richard Stallman wrote: Google Docs operates using nonfree Javascript code. Is it possible for people to fill out your questionaire without running that nonfree program? I don't know, but I guess not. George, You might want to consider looking into LimeSurvey if you're interested in approaching this again with the comments you've received so far. As Richard indicates, many of us in the free software community will avoid using nonfree solutions, so using them could bias your results too. good luck! Karen ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Questionnaire on motivation analysis of open source and open content
On Thu, 2012-02-23 at 16:38 -0500, Karen Sandler wrote: On Thu, February 23, 2012 1:44 pm, Richard Stallman wrote: Google Docs operates using nonfree Javascript code. Is it possible for people to fill out your questionaire without running that nonfree program? I don't know, but I guess not. George, You might want to consider looking into LimeSurvey if you're interested in approaching this again with the comments you've received so far. As Richard indicates, many of us in the free software community will avoid using nonfree solutions, so using them could bias your results too. good luck! Karen Totally off-topic from GNOME discussions (sorry!), but potentially relevant question: Has anyone come up with a comprehensive list of one-to-one functions of non-free services and free? /me starts the list Google Docs Survey -- LimeSurvey Google Docs Document -- ietherpad-lite ? Could turn into a useful wiki page that we can point people to for creating $whatever for our own community tasks. Bryen ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Questionnaire on motivation analysis of open source and open content
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 3:26 PM, Bryen M Yunashko susero...@bryen.comwrote: Totally off-topic from GNOME discussions (sorry!), but potentially relevant question: Has anyone come up with a comprehensive list of one-to-one functions of non-free services and free? /me starts the list Google Docs Survey -- LimeSurvey Google Docs Document -- ietherpad-lite ? Could turn into a useful wiki page that we can point people to for creating $whatever for our own community tasks. http://www.osalt.com/ Find open source alternatives to well-known commercial software. Stormy ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Questionnaire on motivation analysis of open source and open content
On Thu, 2012-02-23 at 16:26 -0600, Bryen M Yunashko wrote: [..] Has anyone come up with a comprehensive list of one-to-one functions of non-free services and free? This is the wrong way round. Don't want to imply, if you like this wonderful proprietary solution, here's a libre one that's almost as good. Instead the list should be, If you want to do _this_ use _this_. Liam -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/ Ankh: irc.sorcery.net irc.gnome.org freenode/#xml ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
