Are More Choices Really Better?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Wednesday November 22, 2006 @06:09AM from the how-to-hit-the-off-switch-let-me-count-the-ways dept.

A. Bosch writes to mention that Joel Spolsky of Fog Creek software has a commentary that examines the need for choices in software. From the article: "This highlights a style of software design shared by Microsoft and the open source movement, in both cases driven by a desire for consensus and for 'Making Everybody Happy,' but it's based on the misconceived notion that lots of choices make people happy, which we really need to rethink." With software steadily becoming more sophisticated, are more choices really necessarily better?

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Screw...meet Hammer by Maxo-Texas · 2006-11-22 06:21 · Score: 0, Redundant

Of course we need choices.

Just like a rachet set has every size from 1/8" to 2", every situation in life is different and requires a different size tool.

Why should we have choices in clothing sizes? It would be so much better if all shoes were size 12 and all clothes had 38" waists.

And we only have *two* software choices apparently? Microsoft and Open source? There are a LOT more choices than that.

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