[mythtv-users] Why Free Software has poor usability ?

Brian Wood beww at beww.org
Mon Aug 4 17:29:06 UTC 2008


Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 08/04/2008 12:15 PM, Brian Wood wrote:
>> Param Singh wrote:
>>   
>>> Interesting article :: Why Free Software has poor usability, and how
>>> to improve it
>>> ============================================================
>>> Link :: http://mpt.net.nz/archive/2008/08/01/free-software-usability
>>> ============================================================
>>>
>>> Major Points in the article
>>>
>>> * Weak incentives for usability.
>>> * Few good designers.
>>> * Design suggestions often aren't invited or welcomed.
>> Well those first 3 certainly do not apply to the MythTV project.
> 
> But what about:
> 
>>> * Placating people with options.

And precisely which commercial software provider does this? :-)

beww


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