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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. Check your links, Timmy by ekrout · · Score: 1, Informative

    Check your links, Timmy.

    As of 4:20PM EST, your PDF link and OSDN link are invalid.

    It's not that hard (I have my own Slash-like site and my links aren't broken)

    No offense, Mr. Monkey .ORG ;-)

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  2. Broken Links by 3ryon · · Score: 4, Informative

    As the PDF link is broken, and the HTML link is annoying, here are some short-cuts: Motivation for programmers, Job functions, Time Spent, Feelings about OS software, Project desires

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  3. Here's the correct link by jon_c · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://www.osdn.com/bcg/BCGHACKERSURVEY.pdf

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  4. Yes, someone has. by avdi · · Score: 3, Informative

    It's called More Than A Gigabuck

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  5. Re:Professional, in there on opinions by Dominic_Mazzoni · · Score: 3, Informative

    According to this slide from their survey results, 45% of respondents are employed as programmers, another 15% in related fields. So while I don't see where the 9/10 came from, clearly the majority of Open Source developers do some sort of software development as their profession.