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What is your age group?
Under 18
18 to 40
41 and above
What is your education level?
Undergraduate
Post graduate
Other
What is your nationality?
Arab
African
American
Asian
European
What is your profession?
Information Technology
Engineering
Business
Other
Have you ever invented something new in your field?
Yes
No
If you answered yes to the previous question, do you consider your invention valuable to the world?
Yes
No
To some extent
If some institution offered you a huge sum of money in return for buying your invention and patenting it, would you agree?
Yes
No
It depends
If you were a Software Engineer, and you had the skills to improve an existing program that is patented. Would you bother paying money to the patent holder in order to improve their program?
Yes
No
It depends
If you were to write a new computer program, would you patent it? Or would you just copyright or copyleft it?
I would patent the program
I would copyright the program
It depends
Do you believe that patents are necessary? Or do you think that copyrights are sufficient?
Patents are necessary, I want to keep certain people away from using my idea.
Copyrights are enough.
I don't care about either.
Do you use Free and Open Source Software?
Yes
No
Not always
If you answered yes to the previous question, then why do you use FOSS?
Because it's Free of charge
Because I love the freedom it brings with it
If you answered no, then what Operating system do you use?
Windows
Mac OS X
Do you love Apple?
Yes
No
Do you mind paying all that money to apple for an iPad, while you can get a better and cheaper table from another company?
I love apple and I don't care about the money
No I'd consider looking for alternatives
This poll was created on 2010-04-18 12:57:06 by Amr Hesham