On Mon, 2009-12-14 at 11:23 +0000, MJ Ray wrote:
Yikes! Surveymonkey is hosted in the US (so outside our privacy laws), isn't accessible to some assisted-access and secured browsers and has nothing to do with free and open source software so why even mention that piece of adware on this list?
I suspect, to some, a service which allows something to accomplished without having to install proprietary software on one's own PC or, when providing a service to or asking contributions of others, on the PCs belonging to those people is preferable so something that does rely on locally installed proprietary software even if the proprietary software is commonly available. That probably explains mentioning this service on this list.
Of course, advocating services which use free or open source software at the server end too would be better and issues of privacy legislation, privacy policy and accessibility are pertinent too. Although awareness of these things is probably much higher here than in the population in general we don't necessarily have the details about individual services so thanks for the info.
Regards, Steve.