At risk of straying even more OT than where we started this thread from, I came across this article today: <http://web.archive.org/web/20030201183139/http://mpt.phrasewise.com/discuss/msgReader$173>Why Free Software has poor usability, and how to improve it<http://mpt.net.nz/archive/2008/08/01/free-software-usability> http://mpt.net.nz/archive/2008/08/01/free-software-usability
Pretty much nails it I think. - D On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 8:25 PM, Don Gould <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David Lowe wrote: > >> MS (and many other commercial software houses) also follow the Pragmatic >> methodology. They go the extra mile for usability because they know that for >> the mass market, usability is everything, even at the expense of >> functionality or technical purity. >> > > I always thought that those two things should go hand in hand. > > If gold is not totally pure then it's not the best gold - most expensive. > > >
