The Free Software Credibility Index
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2008-01-16 23:51:49 UTC
- Modified: 2012-07-18 17:27:15 UTC
At some stage it was realised that
an index is needed which tells people who to trust on Free software matters.
The scale has 6 notches. 0 means least credible; 5 means most credible.
Independent
| Jeff Gould | 0 |
| Rob Enderle | 0 |
| Pamela Jones | 5 |
| Matt Hartley | 3 |
| David M Williams | 5 |
| Beranger | 3 |
| Ken Starks (Helios) | 5 |
| Sam Varghese | 5 |
| Michael Gartenberg | 0 |
| Carla Schroder | 5 |
| Thom Holwerda | 2 |
| Nicholas Petreley | 5 |
| Vichar Bhatt (E@zyVG) | 4 |
| Roland Wolters (Liquidat) | 4 |
| Bob Cringely (pseudonym) | 3 |
| Mike Dailey | 0 |
Information Week
| Information Week | 2 |
| Alex Wolfe | 0 |
| Paul McDougal | 1 |
| Charles Babcock | 2 |
| Serdar Yegulalp | 3 |
| John Foley | 2 |
Analysts
Linux.com/SourceForge
Jupitermedia
| Brian Proffitt | 4 |
| Amy Newman | 4 |
ZDNet
| ZDNet News (including Australia, Asia, UK) | 2 |
| Peter Judge | 4 |
| Mary Jo Foley | 2 |
| Adrian Kingsley-Hughes | 1 |
| Dana Blankenhorn | 4 |
| Ed Bott | 0 |
| Paul Murphy (pseudonym) | 2 |
| Marc Wagner | 0 |
| George Ou | 0 |
Security Firms
| Symantec | 3 |
| Secunia | 1 |
| McAfee | 0 |
Miscellaneous
| Fox | 2 |
| CNN | 1 |
| BBC | 2 |
| Heise | 4 |
| Fortune | 2 |
| David Kirkpatrick | 1 |
| Tim Berners-Lee | 4 |
| New York Times | 2 |
| NBC | 0 |
| PCWorld/IDG | 2 |
| Paul Krill | 4 |
| Shane O'Neill | 0 |
| Savio Rodrigues | 2 |
| Zach Urlocker | 3 |
| InfoWorld | 2 |
| LinuxWorld | 4 |
| Timothy Prickett Morgan | 4 |
| Gavin Clarke | 1 |
| Kelly Fiveash | 1 |
| Dan Goodin | 3 |
| Maureen O'Gara | 0 |
| MilkingTheGNU (Pierre) | 5 |
| Caitlyn Martin | 4 |
| Nick Farrell/Inquirer | 1 |
| Charlie Demerjian | 3 |
| Egan Orion | 4 |
| Preston Gralla | 0 |
| David Ramel | 1 |
| Neil McAllister | 2 |
| Mike Elgan | 2 |
| Techworld | 2 |
| Manek Dubash | 1 |
| Glyn Moody | 5 |
| Doc Searls | 4 |
| Eric Lai | 2 |
| ComputerWorld | 3 |
| OStatic | 3 |
| Techcrunch | 2 |
| Erwin Oliva/Inquirer.net | 1 |
| David Pearce | 1 |
| M. Tim Jones (Emulex) | 5 |
| Rodney Gedda | 4 |
| Jim Finkle | 1 |
| Dan Lyons | 1 |
| Var Guy (JP) | 2 |
| Penguin Pete | 3 |
| Gregg Keizer | 2 |
| Paula Rooney | 4 |
| Tim Anderson | 1 |
| Susan Linton | 5 |
| Andy Updegrove | 5 |
| The Register | 2 |
| Ashlee Vance | 2 |
| Andrew Orlowski | 1 |
| Gordon Haff | 2 |
| Matt Aslett | 5 |
| Don Parris | 5 |
| Ben Worthen | 0 |
| Todd Weiss | 3 |
| Jay Lyman | 4 |
| Motley Fool | 1 |
| Jim Zemlin | 3 |
| Amanda McPherson | 3 |
| Jonathan Corbet | 5 |
| Danijel Orsolic | 5 |
| Rick Lehrbaum (DeviceGuru/LinuxDevices) | 4 |
| Henry Kingman (LinuxDevices) | 4 |
| Don Marti | 5 |
| Jeremy Allison | 5 |
| Richard Stallman | 5 |
| Bruce Perens | 5 |
| John Fontana | 3 |
| Falko Timme | 5 |
| Oliver Meyer | 5 |
| Michael Tiemann | 5 |
Paul Allen's C|Net
| CNET | 2 |
| Ina Fried | 1 |
| Matt Asay | 3 |
| Dave Rosenberg | 3 |
| Martin LaMonica | 2 |
| Stephen Shankland | 4 |
Ziff Davis
2012 Update
Mixed List
| Darryl K. Taft | 2 |
| Zack Whittaker (formerly Microsoft UK) | 1 |
| Matt Rosoff | 0 |
| Lance Whitney | 1 |
| Florian Müller | 0 |
| Jack Wallen | 4 |
| Jono Bacon | 4 |
| Neil Richards | 5 |
| Swapnil Bhartiya | 5 |
| Mark Shuttleworth | 4 |
| Linus Torvalds | 4 |
| Michael Larabel | 4 |
| Ted Tso | 3 |
| Jon Gold | 0 |
