Dear Lara Thynne,
I am not unwilling to answer the questionnaire, but having looked at
it, I don't think it is intended for me.
I do not "work on an open source project", although I note that I am on
the "Red Hat developer's list".
I use open source software (mostly), i.e. Open Office within Windows or
Mac OSX; and I belong to one or two open source mailing lists, but that
is all.
My main turnoff to using Linux is that there is no driver for my laser
printer, and never likely to be. I am not willing to buy a different
printer just for this.
Other turn-offs are that I have never got SANE to work properly, and
GIMP does not produce satisfactory colours for the art work I do on my
inkjet printer.
The results are always subtly different from the EPSON/OSX or WINDOWS
drivers, and this difference is important.
If I hear from you that I am the sort of person you are looking for, I
am willing to consider the questionnaire again.
Yours sincerely,
Dr. Malcolm J. Gregson,
e-mail: malcolm.gregson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
web: www.littlewedlockgallery.co.uk
On Mar 13, , at 04:02, lmth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Hello
My name is Lara Thynne and I am a PhD candidate at Deakin University
Australia. I am currently researching the boundary between work and
leisure activities directly related to the open source community and
open source program development.
As part of this I am running a survey at the following address.
https://dcarf.deakin.edu.au/surveys/oss/
The survey is completely confidential and looks at your views and
motivations to use Open Source software and to participate in the
community.
It will only take a five to ten minutes to complete and your contact
details will not be recorded. You can withdraw your participation at
any stage.
I sincerely apologize for the spammish nature of this e-mail - I
don't mean to abuse this list. I am trying to collect responses
from as many open source developers and users as possible and a
mailing list like can be the only way to reach many developers.
Thanks again
Lara
P.S The program that I am using is open source, of course
(www.phpsurveyor.org)!
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