This is hilarious:
The world's 14 remaining users of the Netscape browser exulted this week over the release of Netscape 6, the first new version of the browser in two years, and a product Netscape executives predicted would blow away Microsoft's Internet Explorer "if this were 1997."
More at SatireWire.com.
Problem is lack of usability.
Actually it goes a bit beyond that. Open source is yet to come up with software that a lay user would find *pleasurable* to use. Linux, Apache etc. but how about something as touchy-feely and elegant as OS X?
Yes, the OS movement needs folks who can develop s/w with the lay user in mind. Until that happens, GIMP will never have a chance with serious graphics professionals. And Gnutella would always be more complicated to use than Napster.
May be it's that indie programmers are no good at creating software that do not use themslves. May be, the iron hands of corporate managers are a necessary evil in making pleasurable-to-use software.
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This is hilarious:
The world's 14 remaining users of the Netscape browser exulted this week over the release of Netscape 6, the first new version of the browser in two years, and a product Netscape executives predicted would blow away Microsoft's Internet Explorer "if this were 1997."
More at SatireWire.com.
Problem is lack of usability. Actually it goes a bit beyond that. Open source is yet to come up with software that a lay user would find *pleasurable* to use. Linux, Apache etc. but how about something as touchy-feely and elegant as OS X?
Yes, the OS movement needs folks who can develop s/w with the lay user in mind. Until that happens, GIMP will never have a chance with serious graphics professionals. And Gnutella would always be more complicated to use than Napster.
May be it's that indie programmers are no good at creating software that do not use themslves. May be, the iron hands of corporate managers are a necessary evil in making pleasurable-to-use software.
How would that model work in countries like India where live performances are not common at all?
Tolerating 'popular speech' is not 'freedom of cpeech. It is letting the goddman s-o-b talk, that's called so.
-- Death to the intolerant.
Add the inventor of Ping to that list. He died about 6 months back, in a car crash.