...and, once more, the use of EU money to fund [...]
Actually, as Cardo Daffara outlined in an Italian list, this is not really EC-sponsored, but a research project approved by the IST programme. So it's still EU money, but at least the headline quoted is wrong:
Source: http://www.advogato.org/article/438.html European Commission launches developer survey Posted 26 Feb 2002 by grex
Unfrotunately, these misunderstandings have the effect of turning this stuff into an "official and statistically meaningful research done by the European Commission". And this will lead to no end of trouble.
No, I'm not participating in the survey.