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

Brad DerManouelian myth at dermanouelian.com
Mon Aug 4 17:01:56 UTC 2008


On Aug 4, 2008, at 9:23 AM, 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
>> ============================================================
>> Link :: http://mpt.net.nz/archive/2008/08/01/free-software-usability
>> ============================================================
>>
>> 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. The only difference is that commercial software with good  
usability usually pays someone to work solely on usability. If you  
paid me what I make at my regular job to work on the usability of  
MythTV, it would be pretty awesome. Just sayin'... ;)



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