Ubuntu Census Survey

[Andreas Lloyd]

Scott wrote:

>On 05/16/2006 09:09 PM, * Chanchao spake thusly:
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>> Also, on the question of 'why are you using FOSS software' you mention
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>>all kinds of mushy reasons like 'the gnu philosophy' and 'allergy to
>>microsoft', but you don't provide a checkbox that says "It doesn't cost
>>money, Einstein!"  (Also is "better security and fewer
>>virus/adware/spyware/malware" in there as an option?)  
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Thanks for noticing this.

There's no "Free of Charge" option on the "what attracted you to FOSS"
question, simply because not all of it is free of charge. But sure, I
should probably have added it as an option all the same. Instead, the
"Free of Charge" option is part of the "What attracted you to Ubuntu"
question.

The "better security" option is missing though - and it most definitely
should have been in there.

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>I found it odd that the very popular Fedora Core was missing.  I had to
>list it under "other".
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Well, to a degree this survey will be exposing my lack of knowledge of
various Linux distributions. For some reason I thought that Red Hat and
Fedora was basically the same thing. My bad. Unfortunately, I can't
change or add poll options without erasing all of the answers I've
already received to that question. I'm afraid there's a lot of
limitations with both Web Surveys and Quantitative Surveys in general -
I'll definitely note these as potential sources of error.

Also, I changed the wording in question 20 to "test release" rather than
"Flight" as that term is only relevant for Dapper. For those who install
an early test release and keep it upgraded, that should pretty equal
testing all of the test releases (which is an option). Again, with my
limited FOSS experience, I haven't taken all the possibilities for
testing into consideration.

Thanks for your responses, it is all kinds of tricky making good surveys
and every little comment helps. It's a learning experience for me, too. :-)

Andreas