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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?

5 of 8 comments (clear)

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

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

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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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