Re: Open Source Survey (request for participation)

From: ray (ray_at_zianet.com)
Date: 01/22/05 

Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 15:34:41 -0700

On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 00:34:11 +0000, Chris F.A. Johnson wrote:

> On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 at 00:11 GMT, Open Source Survey wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>> Sorry to fill up this newsgroup with this request, but for coursework at
>> Erasmus University (the Netherlands) I need to conduct a survey
>> regarding the use of certain open source projects and I'm therefore
>> looking for some volunteers to participate in this survey. The survey is
>> located at: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=42670815560 or
>> alternatively at http://tinyurl.com/3stvu. As an incentive for
>> participation one $20 Amazon gift certificate and 10 Gmail invites will
>> be given away to lucky participants who answered all questions and
>> submitted their e-mail addresses. The e-mail addresses will ONLY be used
>> for this purpose and will be discarded after the give-away has been
>> concluded. After the survey has ended, results will be e-mailed to
>> participants who indicated an interest in these results and will be
>> released to further (academic) research regarding open source software.
>
> Lovely. An Open Source survey that doesn't work in the major open
> source browsers (Mozilla and Firefox).

I had no problem completing the survey using mozilla on Gentoo.

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