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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
Most repsectable programmers I know would rather use Pico because of power and ease of use...
About 30% of the people say they are doing open source to help their chances of getting a job!
From my experience most software companies don't hire people with a open source background since it's high risk. The risk ofcause is that people will run off with the code, cloning the project just for the purpose of driving the company out of business.
That risk is obviously very real since over 30% of the people who has answered says proprietary software shouldn't exist.
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
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I've had to work on many different UNIX workstations, and the lack of Microsoft's word program was crippling. You can call me stupid (we'd all know that that would be a farce) but perhaps more linux distrobutions should include a copy of Microsoft Word. If you want Joe Sixpack to buy a copy of Redhat, you'll have to give him something that doesn't require him to remember arcane keystroke commands. IMHO, Microsoft Word is the key to linux advocacy.
I got a 1600 on the SATs.
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.
If you're a Linux user, you already have it.
If you're a Windows user, get VIM.
And if you're a Mac user, buy a PC then get VIM.
troll. U KAN"T USE W!NDOWS ON LINUX!
it's not nice to troll my comments you asshole. go back under the bridge.
ULTRAEDIT isn't for Unix/Linux. Please go die you troll. I don't lke you guyz. Please lve me al0n3.
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Other weirdness:
About 30% of the people say they are doing open source to help their chances of getting a job!
From my experience most software companies don't hire people with a open source background since it's high risk. The risk ofcause is that people will run off with the code, cloning the project just for the purpose of driving the company out of business.
That risk is obviously very real since over 30% of the people who has answered says proprietary software shouldn't exist.