Answer from Neil for Question 5

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Neil regards himself/herself as:

5.

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

Totally
Irrelevant
Extremely
Relevant

5.1 Unreliable
2  

5.2 Poor publicity, cannot find the site
3  

5.3 Low in technical skill, inexperience in using an IFHOSP
2  

5.4 Low bandwidth, hard to access
2  

5.5 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.
  4

5.6 Low storage capacity
3  

5.7 Counterproductive user interface
2  

5.8 The odd urge to pay for software rather than help build it yourself
  7

5.9 Wanting to have more control and not wanting to develop software in an Open Source/Free Software style
  6

5.10 Not providing the tools or the features needed
2  

5.11 Not having enough control over the IFHOSP comparing with a local machine
  7

5.12 Not trusting the host of the IFHOSP
  4

5.13 Not control the content and the development direction of the IFHOSP
  7

5.14 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.
1  

5.15 Incompatibility with the format that users had in software development
  4

5.16 Unresponsive administrators
2  

5.17 Legal issues on software distribution
Comment: Only if they tried to claim (C) or some other interest in my work. Sourceforge doesn't.
  5

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
2  

5.19 The IFHOSP does not reach a critical mass of users and projects to achieve its advertising function
  4

5.20 Difficult to casually browse or some information cannot be accessed without a username
  4

5.21 The fear of getting flame from other people
Comment: One must have a thick skin. Good moderation tends to sort this out anyway.
  5

5.22 Poor access tools
  4

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Generated On: 25 Oct 2002