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."

Comments

They need a better survey

[mustangdavis]

It is obvious why open source isn't over taking the evil Microsoft empire .... look at the people that they surveyed for the answer:

99% Males
40% Single

Hmmmmm .... 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!!!!!!

Back to the topic, I don't think that the sample of the population makes for a good survey ... 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.

Debian as the favorite Linux distribution??? Gimme a break!

Gnome?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

I can't stop laughing!!!!

These people must also work for Enron .... man can they skeew numbers!!!! (and I bet they're grant money was also listed as "soft money" ....)