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Why Free Software has poor usability, and how to improve it
August 05, 2008 (4:00:00 PM) - 3 months, 4 weeks ago
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When I wrote the first version of this article six years ago, I called it “Why Free Software usability tends to suck”. The best open source applications and operating systems are more usable now than they were then. But this is largely from slow incremental improvements, and low-level competition between projects and distributors. Major problems with the design process itself remain largely unfixed.
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