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What are barriers that prevent users from using an IFHOSP site?

5.1. Unreliable
5.2. Poor publicity, cannot find the site
5.3. Low in technical skill, inexperience in using an IFHOSP
5.4. Low bandwidth, hard to access
5.5. The opposite of the answers in question 4
5.6. Low storage capacity
5.7. Counterproductive user interface
5.8. The odd urge to pay for software rather than help build it yourself
5.9. Wanting to have more control and not wanting to develop software in an Open Source/Free Software style
5.10. Not providing the tools or the features needed
5.11. Not having enough control over the IFHOSP comparing with a local machine
5.12. Not trusting the host of the IFHOSP
5.13. Not control the content and the development direction of the IFHOSP
5.14. Intellectual property issues - the host of the IFHOSP may impose some rights to the projects hosted
5.15. Incompatibility with the format that users had in software development
5.16. Unresponsive administrators
5.17. Legal issues on software distribution
5.18. Lack of documentation and/or information or poor quality documentation and/or information so that users could not work out how to use the site
5.19. The IFHOSP does not reach a critical mass of users and projects to achieve its advertising function
5.20. Difficult to casually browse or some information cannot be accessed without a username
5.21. The fear of getting flame from other people
5.22. Poor access tools

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Generated On: 27 Sep 2002