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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."
Most respectable programmers I know would rather use emacs because of power and ease of use...
Oh cie la vie...
Patrick Havens (Mr. 573333 to you.) Graphic Artist / Coder / Father / Journeler
It is obvious why open source isn't over taking the evil Microsoft empire .... look at the people that they surveyed for the answer:
.... Mainly single males .... maybe some of this stuff needs a women's touch (man, am I going to get flamed for saying that) ... but look at neopets.com. It is the most popular, free online game right now ... why???? Because women like it!!!!!!
... it is skeewed towards software engineers. Where are the systems administrators and network administrators in that list?? I also didn't see that much in terms of University/public researchers .... they are the people that use this stuff!!! I think that the statistician that did this survey needs to go back to Probability & Statistics 101 ... and look at some of the fundemental rules for taking a survey.
.... man can they skeew numbers!!!! (and I bet they're grant money was also listed as "soft money" ....)
99% Males
40% Single
Hmmmmm
Back to the topic, I don't think that the sample of the population makes for a good survey
Debian as the favorite Linux distribution??? Gimme a break!
Gnome?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
I can't stop laughing!!!!
These people must also work for Enron
HallmarkOrnaments.Com
They all suck hard.
Debian over Red Hat?
VI over Emacs?
Gnome over KDE????
These are the worst representations from the open source community. Didn't anyone tell the people of the EU that they are free and they do have a choice. Don't they know that they can choose from the much better options and the Open Source software is all about the freedom of choice? Those poor oppressed bastards are suffering under the worst of open source and they say they like it.