EU Funds New FLOSS Survey on Skills, Employment

Posted by CowboyNeal on Thursday March 31, 2005 @12:45PM from the high-tech-census dept.

rishab writes "The EU-funded FLOSSPOLS project is carrying out a survey of developers worldwide. This is a follow-up to the original FLOSS (Free/Libre/Open Source Software) survey in 2002, which was one of the first and most comprehensive surveys of developers - who they are, how they work and why they do it. The new survey aims to provide an update, include new developers, and answer some of the questions that were raised by the first one. In particular, how do developer communities help in learning skills and generating employment, and why is the level of participation by women so low?"

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Re:Great acronymn by Anonymous Coward · 2005-03-31 13:20 · Score: -1, Troll

no kidding, what the fuck is the difference between libre and free? is there any reason to insert libre in there other than just to be cute?

and btw, is there any real substantive difference between open source and free software? no. other than the philosophy behind it, the result of both is the same.

so we went from OSS, to FOSS, and now apparently to FLOSS. nerds here are the biggest grammar police and newspeakers I have ever seen.