[leglug-users] linux demography research in lebanon

[BashLogic]

Greetings aliens on Mars!

The following message was posted to linux.com.lb. It would be good if
people could pitch in by answering to some/all of the questions
presented in this enquiry + whatever you would like to add.

reply to this mail or then again to me and ill forward the end result.

regards
BashLogic

PS: people please pitch in and reply to this post:) the list has been
too quiet latelly ;)

The survey:
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Hello,

We are economics students in University Saint-Joseph doing research on
the competition between Linux and Windows. On research focuses on the
sever market (we do address the home PC market too but we stress on
the sever market) and we try to address in the latter part of our
research the Lebanese markets specifically.

So, we are in the process of scouting out all Lebanese Linux groups
and communities in order to gather information.
We would like to ask the members the following questions:
- How did you get involved into using Linux, and later on promoting it?
- When and how was your website created?
- What are the website's achievements since its creation?
- What are your short term, medium term and long term goals?
- What have you done to help Linux gain ground on Windows in Lebanon
(especially in the server market)?
- Have you helped companies and/or organisations to integrate Ubuntu
in their operations?
- In your opinion, can the open source software movement defeat (or
severely cripple) Microsoft in the marketplace?
- Why should OSS ever displace traditional software?
- Do you have any other information you can help us with regarding the
use of Linux for servers in Lebanon?

* If you have any testimonials or any sort of information that will do
us good, please don't hesitate to say.
* This research is for our thesis (memoire de license), so credit will
be given to all valuable contributions.

Jad Yammine
&
Fadi Assouad


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