On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 22:52:51 +0200, Marc Röttig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Survey: "Motivation of Free/Open Source Software (F/OSS) Developers" > >We (Marc Röttig and Carl-Daniel Hailfinger) are currently working >on a survey on the motivation of open source developers as part of >a "Computer Science and Society" project at the CS department of the >University of Tübingen. We invite every developer in the Free / Open >Source Software community to help us with our survey by filling out >a little web form to give us some hints on possible motivation-motifs >of F/OSS-developers. > >You can find the survey-form at > > http://foss.ta-altensteig.de/ Your survey is flawed. In particular, question 6 does not contain any answer that is acceptable to me: I think about commercial closed source software ... - I don´t like closed source software at all. Free Software is the only ethical possibility - It's their code, so they get to choose the licence. But I will never use it - Commercial closed source software is is right for the average end user. But skilled people like me will use Open Source alternatives - The majority of software in the future will be some kind of Open Source - The majority of software in the future will be Free Software. - Don´t know. There's no answer even remotely close to: - Sometimes commercial closed source software is the best choice. I think what you'll find is that 100% of respondents are hard-core open source supporters, because you don't give them any other choice! Duncan Murdoch ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
