I know I’m late in posting this, but Brenda Chawner (a long-time expert on library open source software in New Zealand) has developed a survey for her PhD research that explores people’s satisfaction with free/open source software and their satisfaction with any F/OSS projects they’ve been involved in (MediaWiki, Koha, Drupal, MyLibrary, DSpace, etc.). If you have opinions about open source software or especially if you’ve worked with or contributed to open source software, please contribute to this survey. The survey is open until Friday, November 14th and the results will be published on various tech-related electronic mailing lists in mid-2009. I know I’ll be interested in seeing the results!
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Satisfaction with free/open source software survey
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Many forays into open source security are implemented successfully, only to suffer setbacks as the result of improper maintenance. The ability to correctly patch and update the various facets of a solution that uses OSS is crucial to maintaining security as well as stability, since otherwise issues can arise from having un-patched components that are susceptible to attack or disruption.
“Most of the packaged security appliances for everything from firewalls to security information management are built on the same BSD Unix and Linux distributions as the application servers you build yourself,”
Thanking you,
ur’s
Ravish PY,
Librarian,
Sri Revana Siddeshwara Institute of Technology,
Bangalore -562157
Karnataka (state)
India