Hello, I read the survey and I am happy to help, but I am mildly confused. I wrote comments in 'Other' for many of the answers. <br><br>I am glad to do evaluation of FOSS tools, but the Free implied by the survey appears to be free in cost, not free in freedom. Many of the questions are about free in cost proprietary software, not Free/Open source software (FOSS). I feel as if that slants the survey considerably as some questions are ambiguous, such as "In general how easy is it to install free open source software tools?". It says free open source software (FOSS), but many of the previous questions are about freeware proprietary software which is not FOSS, so does the question mean free open source software (FOSS) or freeware proprietary software?<br>
<br>I do not mean to critique, as I would like to help, but I found 7 or 8 of the questions to be invalid. I would like to be providing accurate statistics from my experiences. I want to make sure I am answering the questions about FOSS or Freeware specifically. My experiences with each are radically different. I don't seem a reasonable way to combine them into one statistical group without drawing inaccurate/slanted statistics/conclusions.<br>
<br clear="all">Thank you,<br>Cody Van De Mark<br><a href="mailto:cav5343@rit.edu" target="_blank">cav5343@rit.edu</a><br><br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 4:58 PM, Dr. Rajeev Agrawal <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ragrawal@ncat.edu" target="_blank">ragrawal@ncat.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-US"><div><p class="MsoNormal">Dear all<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">One of my students is doing a small project on FOSS tools. To help him, can you please complete this short survey on evaluating common FOSS tools? It has only 10 questions. I know I am sending it to experts on FOSS tools, therefore, if some questions are incorrect, please write in ‘Other’. <u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/5NX6LTT" target="_blank">http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/5NX6LTT</a><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">******************************************* <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Rajeev Agrawal, PhD <u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Department of Computer Systems Technology(formerly ECIT)<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">North Carolina A&T State University <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">*******************************************<u></u><u></u></p>
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