The 2010 edition of the Future of Open Source survey is now available. This survey is backed by the Future of Open Source Forum, and has collaborators including such well-known Open Source leaders as North Bridge, RedHat, MySQL, Novell, SugarCRM, and others.

The first Future of Open Source survey was in 2008, and the survey ran again in 2009. More than 400 people responded to the survey last year (prior year numbers were not readily available), and these respondents ran the gamut from open source vendors to persons in academia, and from organizations large and small.

Results from both the 2008 and 2009 surveys are available, and show interesting results.  For example, while in 2008 eighty-one percent of respondents indicated that the state of the economy was good for Open Source, a year later that figure had jumped to ninety-six percent—a fifteen point increase, certainly due to the deteriorating condition of the economy worldwide.

The survey shouldn’t take you more than 15 minutes to complete.  Take the survey now and share your opinions on how the world of Open Source will evolve over the next few years.