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Open Source Developers Mostly Pros, Not Weenies

Posted by timothy on from the what's-my-motivation dept.

SpinyNorman writes: "Survey shows open source developers mostly veteran pros, not slashdot weenies. Slashdot weenie Hemos should have submitted this himself already seeing as he was involved in it as LinuxWorld! Open source a needed outlet for programming pros." Like any survey, it's bound to miss some avenues of exploration, but this is the best look at a large group of open source developers I've seen yet. The survey itself (a joint project of the Boston Consulting Group and Slashdot-parent OSDN) lives at www.osdn.com/bcg, or you can jump straight to it in either PDF or html.

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  1. There are lies, damned lies... by dave-fu · · Score: 4, Flamebait

    ...and statistics coming from a not-even-remotely-detached source.
    Don't feel like calling into question the verity of the methodology employed in a survey of open source developers by a open source company; it's obviously as trustworthy as a survey of databases as performed/sponsored by Oracle.
    I'm not even sure what a sweeping generalization like this proves other than some of us really like to program.

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    Easy does it!
    This comment has been submitted already, 276865 hours , 59 minutes ago. No need to try again.
  2. OSDN says: we're not weenies! by Ars-Fartsica · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Yes, you have to wonder about the validity of a profile created by an advicacy group. Well, if it was a Microsoft thing people would be all over it.