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Do Developers Love Legalese?

blog.programmableweb.com on 05/25/2012

Excerpt: At this year’s SXSW, Mashery (a ProgrammableWeb sponsor) conducted a survey of attending developers and discovered something interesting: They care more about getting Commercial Terms of Service (TOS) than code samples from their APIs. Does this mean a new rash of coder/lawyers skewed the survey sample? No, it’s just an indication that developers are growing up–and they expect their favorite APIs to grow with them. Below you can see the 2012 survey results for yourself, and then compare it to Mashery’s 2010 developer survey (see slide #3), wherein code samples rated as most important to API developers, followed by “Clear API License terms in plain English.... read the full post.