A sociologist studies KDE you REALLY should read this.

[woodsmoke]

He is not giving his "insights" about KDE, but he is describing how:

a) he has studied it
b) he is giving a class on FLOSS, etc. and using KDE community as an example.

http://dot.kde.org/2012/01/10/interv...t-studying-kde

woodsmoke

[SteveRiley]

Re: A sociologist studies KDE you REALLY should read this.

Wow! Published research about free software, definitely a must read! But then...



How ironic

[ronw]

Re: A sociologist studies KDE you REALLY should read this.

There is a link in one of the comments that opens a PDF of what I assume is the full paper.

http://eprints.gold.ac.uk/4362/1/Cha...re_Project.pdf

[SteveRiley]

Re: A sociologist studies KDE you REALLY should read this.

Yay! Downloaded.

More irony. The format of the page footer sure looks familiar:



And notice the font selection:



Cambria! A research paper about free software, composed with Word 2010 running on Windows. Sigh...

[ronw]

Re: A sociologist studies KDE you REALLY should read this.

Sigh indeed. Might have been his choice, but I wouldn't be surprised if his school/publisher/whoever required submission using a MS Word template they supplied.

[woodsmoke]

Re: A sociologist studies KDE you REALLY should read this.

methinks yes ronw.

woodsmoke