On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 13:12:41 +0530, Sriram J
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> On 1/14/08, Manoj Srivastava
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 13:43:32 +0530, Sriram J
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>>
>> > Does the idea of open source take precedence over usability. but
>>
>> If you find free software is not as usable as you would wish it to
>> be, you have the opportunity to improve the free software in question
>> by scratching your itch. This is how we get free software to start
>> with.
> There is a catch here. you can not scratch your itch any way you feel
> like. only if the free software you write matches 100% with the
> ideology only then it is accepted.
Err, no. When I scratch my itch, it is scratched. Whether or
not other people like my solution is immaterial to me; my ideology is
the only one that counts when it is I who is doing the work.
> if you scratch you itch for hardware support in a way that does not
> completely and totally match the ideology then it will be removed or
> disabled and you will be where you started.
I don't think someone can come to my machine and remove software
that scratches my itch.
Whether other people use or do not use my solution is, of
course, up to them, but, in the meanwhile, my problem has gone away.
> So i am back to my original question Does the idea of open source take
> precedence over usability.
Free software is about people scratching their itches and making
the solutions they create available for other people to use, if they
wish.
In that context, I have no idea how to interpret your question.
I use free software since I find it usable -- I am far more productive
with free software than I am otherwise, since I have, over the years,
modified it to work as I want it to. Some of my changes have been
accepted upstream, others are far too idiosyncratic and tailored to my
needs to have propagated far.
I do not see there being a conflict between free software and
usability; on the contrary.
manoj
--
Try `stty 0' -- it works much better.
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.golden-gryphon.com/>
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