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FLOSS Developer Survey Results Published

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the actual-research?-you-gotta-be-kidding dept.

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."

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  1. Is this some kind of a joke?!?!? by FortKnox · · Score: 4, Funny

    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?

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  2. Executive summary by tmark · · Score: 5, Funny

    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 ?

  3. Most free software developers have a girlfriend by Elladan · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

    <G>

  4. ITS OFFICIAL! by Eric_Cartman_South_P · · Score: 5, Funny
    Great! So it's official! Emacs sucks and vi is best!

    q

    Q

    :qq

    ;quit

    ;alt_ctrl_del

    ;F4

    ;sh!t how do I exit this post?

  5. Other survey results... by Bonker · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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    1. Re:Other survey results... by liquidsin · · Score: 5, Funny

      28.6% of poll respondents were confused by the lack of a "Cowboy Neal" option.

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