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What are barriers that prevent users from using an IFHOSP site? |
Totally Irrelevant |
Extremely Relevant |
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5.1
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Unreliable |
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5.2
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Poor publicity, cannot find the site |
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5.3
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Low in technical skill, inexperience in using an IFHOSP |
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5.4
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Low bandwidth, hard to access |
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5.5
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The opposite of the answers in question 4
Comment: |
The questions are out of order. This question is hard to answer as there's double negatives involved. Rephrase or drop.
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5.6
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Low storage capacity |
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5.7
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Counterproductive user interface |
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5.8
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The odd urge to pay for software rather than help build it yourself |
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5.9
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Wanting to have more control and not wanting to develop software in an Open Source/Free Software style |
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5.10
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Not providing the tools or the features needed |
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5.11
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Not having enough control over the IFHOSP comparing with a local machine |
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5.12
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Not trusting the host of the IFHOSP |
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5.13
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Not control the content and the development direction of the IFHOSP |
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5.14
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Intellectual property issues - the host of the IFHOSP may impose some rights to the projects hosted
Comment: |
They should be hosting it for hosting and traffic's sake. If they want an interest, they should pay.
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5.15
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Incompatibility with the format that users had in software development |
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5.16
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Unresponsive administrators |
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5.17
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Legal issues on software distribution
Comment: |
Only if they tried to claim (C) or some other interest in my work. Sourceforge doesn't.
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5.18
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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 |
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5.19
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The IFHOSP does not reach a critical mass of users and projects to achieve its advertising function |
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5.20
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Difficult to casually browse or some information cannot be accessed without a username |
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5.21
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The fear of getting flame from other people
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One must have a thick skin. Good moderation tends to sort this out anyway.
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5.22
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Poor access tools |
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