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

Nick Rout nick.rout at gmail.com
Mon Aug 4 20:51:58 UTC 2008


On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 4:27 AM, Udo van den Heuvel <udovdh at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> Brian Wood wrote:
>>> * Design suggestions often aren't invited or welcomed.
>>
>> Well those first 3 certainly do not apply to the MythTV project.
>
> Can we add fixing bugs?
> Perhaps it is a-typical, but the `memory leak` thingie did not go too
> well. And still doesn't.
>
> Even when we reproduce the 'MythTV records but doesn't write mpegs'
> issue the memory consumption goes up steadily.
> I.e.: we see assumed leaks and we see a lack of error checking.
>
> Who is assuming lead in making sure that this piece of free software
> uses part of the resources to make stuff less buggy?

Broken record speaks again. And how is this related to the article,
which cincentrates on usability, ie the user interface design.


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