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

[Brian Wood]

Russ Dill wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 9:11 AM, Param Singh <mithu.singh at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Interesting article :: Why Free Software has poor usability, and how
>> to improve it
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>> Link :: http://mpt.net.nz/archive/2008/08/01/free-software-usability
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>>
>> Major Points in the article
>>
> 
> Have you never worked on commercial software? I think all of these
> could apply to any commercial software I worked on, plus more.

I agree totally. Be sure to include artificial marketing-driven release
deadlines, feature creep as customers change their minds, "features"
designed to lock in customers, not perform the intended function, cost
reduction measures and many other problems.

The only area where commercial software seems to best open source stuff
is probably documentation, and often not even there.

beww