Re: [ox-en] The Free/Libre/Open Source Software Survey for 2003
- From: Graham Seaman <graham seul.org>
- Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 08:17:08 -0500 (EST)
On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, Chris Croome wrote:
Hi
I thought the presentation of the first FLOSS survey was interesting at
the conference, perhaps we should see if we can get people from this one
to the next conference.
I'm mildly annoyed with the frist one - they promised that the data was
would be released, but they seem to keep on pumping out papers from it and
not releasing it... I've given up on asking now after being told 'very
soon' 4 times (usually along with 'were too busy', which is fine, but..).
And as far as I understand the US one, on grounds of 'privacy' (hah!)
they're never going to release the raw data, which means you can only know
the answers to the questions they choose to ask of the data... :-(
Seems like academic interests (ie paper publishing) and openness aren't
fitting too well...
Graham
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