Comments on: The Expert Community is Bullish on GPLv3 http://www.openlogic.com/blogs/2007/04/the-expert-community-is-bullish-on-gplv3/ Open Source Governance, Scanning, Support, and Cloud Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:00:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Stormy Peters http://www.openlogic.com/blogs/2007/04/the-expert-community-is-bullish-on-gplv3/comment-page-1/#comment-32305 Stormy Peters Mon, 16 Apr 2007 19:16:54 +0000 http://www.openlogic.com/blogs/2007/04/the-expert-community-is-bullish-on-gplv3/#comment-32305 Hi Tom, I appreciate the request for the data - which I did include in my post - I shared questions and answers. However, I did take a college statistics class and I know that you can't take the number of people that responded yes in a survey and then divide it by the total population invited! You have to divide it by the people that responded! Talk about trying to twist the data! Stormy Hi Tom,

I appreciate the request for the data – which I did include in my post – I shared questions and answers.

However, I did take a college statistics class and I know that you can’t take the number of people that responded yes in a survey and then divide it by the total population invited! You have to divide it by the people that responded! Talk about trying to twist the data!

Stormy

]]> By: Tom Morris http://www.openlogic.com/blogs/2007/04/the-expert-community-is-bullish-on-gplv3/comment-page-1/#comment-32300 Tom Morris Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:02:03 +0000 http://www.openlogic.com/blogs/2007/04/the-expert-community-is-bullish-on-gplv3/#comment-32300 Since you're not a statistician, are you going make the raw survey data and methodology available so that others can do their own interpretation? That would be kind of open sourcey (to coin a phrase). This press release, http://linuxpr.com/releases/9601.html, says "Forty-five Expert Community members corresponded [sic]," so if I was spinning for the other side I might say "fewer than 10% of open source developers support GPL V3" (50% of 45 / 250+) or "more than half (57%) of open source developers concerned about changes to GPL V3." That would be about as accurate as your "3-to-1 in favor" spin. Since you’re not a statistician, are you going make the raw survey data and methodology available so that others can do their own interpretation? That would be kind of open sourcey (to coin a phrase).

This press release, http://linuxpr.com/releases/9601.html, says “Forty-five Expert Community members corresponded [sic],” so if I was spinning for the other side I might say “fewer than 10% of open source developers support GPL V3″ (50% of 45 / 250+) or “more than half (57%) of open source developers concerned about changes to GPL V3.” That would be about as accurate as your “3-to-1 in favor” spin.

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