Re: Questionnaire on motivation analysis of open source and open content

2012-02-24 Thread Luis Villa
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Bryen M Yunashko wrote: > I know this is not exactly a GNOME topic, That's correct. Please take the discussion to a different communication forum. (The details of what tool are used by a non-GNOME academic are a perfectly fine topic for discussion *with that acad

Re: Questionnaire on motivation analysis of open source and open content

2012-02-24 Thread Bryen M Yunashko
On Fri, 2012-02-24 at 16:39 -0500, Richard Stallman wrote: > Thus, the replacements we recommend for services which are SaaS > ought to be programs for people to run on their own servers. > > > Google Docs Survey -- LimeSurvey > > Google Docs Document -- ietherpad-lite > > I don't know wh

Re: Questionnaire on motivation analysis of open source and open content

2012-02-24 Thread Richard Stallman
http://www.osalt.com/ "Find open source alternatives to well-known commercial software." Although most open source programs are free software, there are occasional exceptions. I'd expect that all those programs are free, but we can't be sure unless we check the licensing of each one. How

Re: Questionnaire on motivation analysis of open source and open content

2012-02-23 Thread Liam R E Quin
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 a

Re: Questionnaire on motivation analysis of open source and open content

2012-02-23 Thread Stormy Peters
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 3:26 PM, Bryen M Yunashko wrote: > > 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 Surve

Re: Questionnaire on motivation analysis of open source and open content

2012-02-23 Thread Bryen M Yunashko
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 gu

Re: Questionnaire on motivation analysis of open source and open content

2012-02-23 Thread Karen Sandler
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 LimeS

Re: Questionnaire on motivation analysis of open source and open content

2012-02-23 Thread Luciana Fujii
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 f

Re: Questionnaire on motivation analysis of open source and open content

2012-02-23 Thread Richard Stallman
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. F

Questionnaire on motivation analysis of open source and open content

2012-02-22 Thread George Tsinarakis
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 p