Article: OSS S.O.S - How HCI Killed Open Source

Oluseyi Sonaiya · 2004-08-08T17:27:32

Here. Quote: With such a shallow bench and a fundamental misunderstanding of these disciplines, the OSS community has been forced to spend much of its time copying existing applications. In this way they take advantage of usability and design work done by others, but such a strategy necessarily trails behind the products being copied.Perhaps one of the most cogent explanations of why Open Source applications, while very "cool", embody very little real innovation. Your thoughts/comments/insights? References The article linked to is a reaction/commentary on Open source usability is a technical problem we can solve on our own by Frans English.

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Started by Oluseyi August 01, 2004 04:42 PM

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August 08, 2004 05:27 PM

Cipher3D, you might be elightened by looking at gnome storage.

the way you open files with that is to type in the box something like "movies starring Natalie Portman and Hot Grits" or "files I worked on in december" and it shows you that.