Nicholas Petreley on what Linux developers really want (IBM News) [LWN.net]

IBM News is carrying this interview with Nicholas Petreley as he analyzes the results of the latest Evans Data Corp 2003 Linux Developer Survey. "You spent a lot of time investigating developers' perception of Linux security. Where did the respondents come down on the Linux versus Windows security debate? Nick: They came squarely down on the side of Linux being a far more secure system. The comparison wasn't even close. What I found interesting though, was that their confidence in open source as inherently more secure has been dropping over the past 18 months or so, despite the fact that their actual incidence of crack-ins, break-ins to their servers, and virus problems, based on the survey was statistically insignificant."

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Nicholas Petreley on what Linux developers really want (IBM News)

Posted Apr 29, 2003 15:37 UTC (Tue) by southey (subscriber, #9466) [Link]

"crunched through SPSS"

Hey this is about Linux, at least use a statistical package that runs under Linux! :-) R (which is free) and SAS (not free) have native Linux versions. Does SPSS run under Wine or CrossOffice?