Notes on How the Results are Processed

After each round of Delphi survey, if the data collected is qualitative, the researcher will summarise the data and present them to the participants in the next round.

The summarising process that the researcher adopted was first to break responses into unit concepts. Then, the researcher linked the whole collection of concepts with the responses. The researcher tried to make every unit concept self-contained and mutually exclusive to other concepts, but this could not be achievable with every concepts. You may also find that some your answers are linked to the larger concept because the researcher also tried to minimise the number of concepts.

The term "Open Source" is now replaced by "Free Software/Open Source" in the summarised answers to acknowledge that both terms, Free Software and Open Source, were valid expression to be used in the survey. Unfortunately, in the explanation section of the survey, only minimal change is possible to give the participants a uniform view of the survey.

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Last Update: 20 Aug. 2001