General Open Source Softare question.

From: Paul Bonamy (pbonamy_at_student.lssu.edu)
Date: 03/28/04 

Date: 28 Mar 2004 12:06:05 -0800

Hey,

I'm working a research paper on Open Source Software (for a
college class in formal research), and I've got a couple of
general questions about OSS projects and software in general:

        1) Are some programming languages better suited to
                OSS projects that others? I've noticed that
                most Open Source Software is written in some
                dialect of C. Why is that?

        2) What kind of environment is required for Open Source
                Software to flourish? Since Linux/*BSD/etc
                still haven't beaten out Windows as the dominate
                PC platform, what else is needed to really get
                OSS into widespread use?

        3) Are there times when using an OSS development model
                is ill advised?

Thanks for your time. Assuming I ever get this paper done,
I'll be sure to post a link to the finished work here.

-Paul

P.S. If there's a better place to ask these questions, please let
me know, and I'll be happy to enquire there, instead.