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I tend to agree with you, the way things are going at present many software’s are being given away free, we own several dating sites and have given 100% free membership to all users, in the hope of soon adding adsence onto the site and gain revenue from this. Many of the desktop application are now starting to give shareware and freeware, making revenue in other ways from the users who use there software, gone are the days of purchasing expensive applications, when freebies will do the same job, unfortunately free software does not normally offer support so it does depend on what is most important to the end user.
Regards David (UKGENT)

You pose an interesting question, after all most online surveys are susceptible to a variety of factors that can reduce their significance. Self-selection is one of the most difficult to overcome - for example, a survey asking readers of Slashdot if Linux is a good operating system is probably not going to carry much weight.

I am actually somewhat surprised that the results have turned out so strongly in favour of FLOSS. Not because I'm a FLOSS user/developer, but because of the visitors to this site. There's maybe 5 people I know who occasionally check to see what rants I've come up with lately. But the overwhelming majority of visitors (apart from the cursed spammers) come to my site from Google, and based on a surprising variety of keywords. Furthermore, the responses are from very geographically diverse origins (according to the IPs).

Which all means that people who vote most likely do not know me, and are not technical or developer types. So I think the results are actually more significant than a lot of others out there - which probably isn't hard. It would be interesting to do a proper survey though, with proper random selection and all that.