The Free Software Credibility Index
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 |
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