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Survey of Software Developers

Posted by Hemos on from the add-to-the-body-of-knowledge dept.

gerddie writes "Currently the European Commission sponsors a study of Free/Libre/Open Source Software. Part of it is a survey amongst developers of libre software, as well as an automated analysis of source code. Read also the press release"
The survey asks what you think about
  • Technology: referred programming languages, operating systems
  • Law: licensing issues, copyright and intellectual property, authorship
  • Organisation: efficiency, quality, comparison of commercial software
  • Motivation: monetary / non-monetary, reputation, pleasure, creativity, jobs
  • Expectations: what do you expect of others? What do they expect of you?
  • Larger role: will Free Software/Open Source change the economy/society, or even just the commercial information technology industry?

8 comments

  1. No last post by Anomolous+Cow+Herd · · Score: 1

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  2. wait a sec... by jeffy124 · · Score: 2, Informative

    i just took the survey. There werent any law questions on there.

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    1. Re:wait a sec... by sinserve · · Score: 1

      The law part is spread through-out.

      Remember when they asked if you always sign your code and how important that was to you.

      There are also little nuggets burried in other questions. There is this option asking wether all software should be free or not.

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  3. interesting by seann · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I took the test, boring friday night, woman in the shower, and I am happy to know 6.7% of programmers started contributing to open source projects in the same year I did. (2000).

    I urge you to take this test, just for the fun of someone looking up google's cache in the NewGoogle (Tm) search engine 50 years in the future.

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  4. something sad by alonsoac · · Score: 3, Interesting

    click here to see how many of the open source developers are male.
    Where are the girls at today?

    1. Re:something sad by PD · · Score: 2

      The girls are probably playing with toys and doing homework. The women are wondering why you didn't ask where they are today.

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  5. There is a Liar amongst us. by sinserve · · Score: 1

    and he says his native tongue is Esperanto. Where the hell do they speak esperanto, other than liberal-arts departments and study halls?

    Was this guy born in a fucking campus, right next to Chomsky's desk?

    Come out you punk.

    And ooh, to the FS developer with more than six kids: does your source-forge commits REALLY support all six of them? or is that another lie?

    I think the same punk who was born speaking Esperanto, is the same one supporting kids with GPLed mIRC scripts.

    Damn these liars.

    I am off my soap box, back to remote-debugging my Ferrari fuel-injection system, that my super-model chick bought me.

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    1. Re:There is a Liar amongst us. by Martin+S. · · Score: 2

      the FS developer with more than six kids: does your source-forge commits REALLY support all six of them

      This is probably the same *person* who cannot work out what a gender troll's are!!!

      http://floss1.infonomics.nl/stats.php?id=32