Le Fri 3/10/2008, "Aécio F. Neto" disait > IMHO, this is one of the reasons free software doesn't go to the masses. > I have worked in both worlds - proprietary and free software - and this > last one lacks in many aspects that proprietary code takes care of: > being friendly. > There is a myth in free software that who is going to use that is (or > should be) highly technical, so who cares about being nice. This is > almost a rule for software mainly used by sys admins. > > I have seem many nice software (clamav is one of them) that the > technical skill inside it (its core) is great, but when it comes to the > user interface it is always a nightmare. > > When someone complains about that, there is always a scream in the > crowd: hey, this is free software - people dedicating their free time... > - what are you expecting? A Windows-way of doing things? Why don't you > write your own gui? > > From my point of view, that's why free and open source software are not > welcome out ther sometimes.
I never found comemrcial sftware being friendly to the user : bugs are rarely acknowledged; , licence management is a nightmare (should I se open, OEM or box licence in this configuration ?) etc... _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml
