CATEGORIES OF FLOSS USERS
F/LOSS adaptation and usage highly depends on the user’s satisfaction with technology as well as the user’s awareness about F/LOSS (Gwebu and Wang, 2010). Gwebu and Wang divided the users according to the professional background (developers and non-developers) and social affiliation (community members and non community members). According to their professional background and social affiliation, users have enormous perception about F/LOSS and use different software. But only professional background or social affiliation is not responsible for the end users perception of F/LOSS, the combination of these two; that is the professional background and social affiliation plays a major role on end user awareness of F/LOSS. The developers compose a reasonably small and specialist, but profitable market whereas the non-developers makes up for the mainstream market. This is because the developers have the technical knowledge needed for the efficient use of the F/LOSS software and the ...