Survey Provides New Insights Into 'Hacker' Culture

I found the following article on the biz.yahoo.com (taken from the PR NewsWire). A survey by the Boston Consulting Group probed the motivation and models used by the Open Source Software community.

"A recently completed survey of the Open Source Software (OSS) community provides insight into employee motivation and the development of resource models, according tithe Boston Consulting Group (BCG). The survey conducted online interviews with 526 OSS community members who are registered users of SourceForge.net, the world's largest Open Source development Web site. The study was released today in a presentation at the Linux World meeting in New York City."

The complete press release can be found at http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/020131/neth029_1.html

The survey can be found at
    http://www.bcg.com
and
    http://www.osdn.com/bcg/

Release 0.3 of the survey analysis is available in a pdf file.