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FLOSS final report
The FLOSS (Free/Libre/Open Source Software) study from the University of
Maastricht is now available in its final
form. Set aside a fairly large chunk of time to read through the whole
thing. "Almost half of the sample (46%) does not earn money from
OS/FS, neither directly nor indirectly. In turn, this means that the
majority of the OS/FS developers receives some kind of reward for
contributions to OS/FS. Comparing the amount of monetary and non-monetary
rewards with regard to the respective shares of developers in the different
items, both kinds of rewards seem to have the same importance for the
community."
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FLOSS final report Posted Aug 21, 2002 21:48 UTC (Wed) by grex (guest, #3362) [Link] (from a comment in Slashdot by Sgt. Latino): FLOSS is not about the (frivolous) items discussed in the summary. The poll is only a small part of the study, which goes into great depth in the use and role of free software in companies and in government.It goes as far as recommending that EU states adopt legislation similar to the one proposed in Argentina, Perú, Colombia and others, mandating the use of free software in government for security reasons. Section 4.2
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