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FLOSS Developer Survey Results Published
grex writes "The FLOSS (Free/Libre/Open Source Software) study from the University of Maastricht has published its final report. One of its five parts is the developer survey based basically on developers from the European Union. Results show that Debian is the preferred distribution, GNOME the desktop the majority choose and vi more popular than Emacs. But this survey also handles economic, law-related and motivation aspects among developers that make it very interesting to read."
Heathens !
What exactly does Levi Spear Parmly (1790-1859) - the inventor/developer of dental floss - have to do with open source software!
:-)
Or then again, maybe I am just missing something...
Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. -- Benjamin Franklin
Oh GOD!
I'm AVERAGE !
noooooo!
What's this Submit thingy do?
In one day, we read:
A review of Vim to get people primed for an editor war.
Next, we read about Which is the better browser, to get that war going.
Now, we just put all our eggs in one basket for an all out flamewar that includes distros, editors, Window Managers, and even will bring up the euro vs. american flamewars.
Sweet lord, people! Wonder why Linux is still having trouble competing with MS? Could it possibly be internal conflicts?
Good quote, too many chars. Seriously, the slashdot 120 char limit sucks!
Results show that Debian is the preferred distribution, GNOME the desktop the majority choose and vi more popular than Emacs.
So what you're saying is, these guys spent a ton of money to produce a giant troll ? Did they happen to say to whether Britney Spears is hotter than Shakira, or which Star Trek TV series was best ?
Patient: Doctor... I seem to have a problem with my teeth.
Doctor: Yes, what is it?
Patient: I have his nagging pain here, is there anything you can do?
Doctor: Let me see... HOLY CRAP! (cough) Well uh... let me put it to you straight. You seem to have a Gnome stuck inbetween your teeth. I'd get the FLOSS out, but I don't think it'd help your problem. Perhaps we should knock your teeth out and replace them all with KDE bridges.
It's true. Look at the study.
Now, if we compare this to /., where approximately six people have a girlfriend, and half of them are girls, we must conclude that nobody on /. actually does anything useful.
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I agree.
Who *doesn't* use Word to code and edit configuration files?
Soma: because a gramme is better than a damn.
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62.3% of Linux users have a (warezed) Windows 2000 partition so that they can play Warcraft III
59.3% of Linux users prefer 'slender, young looking' anime babes to 'busty, voluptuous' anime babes.
only 22.3% of Linux users really think Natalie Portman is all the good looking, even in tight white spandex. Most were just thankful that JarJar only got 2 scenes.
93.2% of Linux users who read Slashdot have JonKatz permanently filtered.
32.3% - Boxers
44.1% - Tighty Whiteys
22.3% - Flappin' in the wind, baby!
62% of Linux users think that 'man' is a threatening name for a documentation application since it's vaguely homoerotic.
58.3% of Linux users think that all polls about free software are orchestrated by Microsoft and are unwilling to trust the results, even if they are positive.
The next Slashdot story will be ready soon, but subscribers can beat the rush and slashdot the links early!
They didn't count the results from Finnish users, otherwise you would have seen linux from scratch over debian, bash over gnome or kde and lynx over mozilla..