[Discussioni] rapporto FLOSS sul software libero

[Carlo Daffara]

Il report ha una parte molto mal fatta, ed e' quella legata ai developers.
Il campione non e' scelto in modo appropriato, ci sono molti errori di
metodologia e altre cosette.
Il survey sull'uso nelle aziende invece e' fatto molto meglio, e
nonostante ci siano molti dati interessanti nessuno si e' preso la briga
di leggerlo...
a volte sembra che anche la nostra comunita' sia win-like, e si diverta a
leggere il riassuntino di 5 righe e basta.
ciao
						Carlo

On 27 Aug 2002, Simo Sorce wrote:

>
> su altre liste (discussion a fsgeurope.org credo) ho letto forti critiche
> a questo studio e alla sua validità.
>
> Si criticava credo la scelta del campione e il fatto che il Software
> Libero non fosse correttamente definito quando sono stati rilevati i
> dati.
>
> Simo.
>
> On Tue, 2002-08-27 at 14:00, Francesco Potorti` wrote:
> > 		 http://www.infonomics.nl/FLOSS/report/
> >
> > ================================================================
> > Free/Libre and Open Source Software: Survey and Study
> >
> > FLOSS FINAL REPORT
> >
> > International Institute of Infonomics
> > University of Maastricht, The Netherlands
> >
> > Berlecon Research GmbH
> > Berlin, Germany
> >
> > June 2002
> >
> > Final Report
> >
> >   * Part 0: Executive Summary Overview of the FLOSS project
> >   * Part I: Use of Open Source Software in Firms and Public Institutions
> >   * Part II: Firms Open Source Activities: Motivations and Policy
> >     Implications
> >   * Part II B: Open Source Software in the Public Sector: Policy within
> >     the European Union
> >   * Part III: Basics of Open Source Software Markets and Business Models
> >   * Part IV: Survey of Developers
> >   * Part V: Source Code Survey
> >   * Raw data from Source Code Survey
> >
> > Overview of the FLOSS project
> >
> > This project remedies the lack of information on Free/Libre/Open Source
> > Software (1) starting at the very beginning: by conducting surveys to
> > generate a unique base of primary data on Free/Open Source Software
> > usage and development; identifying indicators to measure value creation
> > and dissemination in the OS/FS arena; identifying business models based
> > on these indicators; identifying the impact of and recommending changes
> > in government policy and regulatory environments with regards to OS/FS;
> > finally, the development of a base for extending these to the broader
> > economic measurement of non-monetary and trans-monetary activity in the
> > information society, beyond the domain of OS/FS.
> >
> > The specific features of this project are:
> >
> >  1. The collation of a base of hard data (until now no such data exist)
> >     on the importance and role of OS/F software in today s economies and
> >     an impact assessment for policy and decision-making.
> >  2. The development of indicators for the measurement of value creation
> >     within the OS/F software communities, especially in order to
> >     identify the distribution patterns of contribution within OS/F
> >     software communities and projects.
> >  3. The measurement of contributions and identification of dependence on
> >     such contributions as are provided by user organisations OS/F
> >     software, including government/international institutions, on the
> >     developer community and on project development at large.
> >  4. The evaluation and identification of business models and best
> >     practices in the OS/F software community, especially the transition
> >     to and from commercial software operations.
> >
> > (1) Throughout this report and project documents the terms Free Software
> >     and Open Source Software are used interchangeably, except where a
> >     specific distinction between the terms is explicitly made.
> >
> > This page is part of the FLOSS study (http://www.infonomics.nl/FLOSS/),
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