I think Open source authors are in fact more reponsive to their users. It just so happens that initially most users where other programmers.
No increasingly users are no longer programmers and the open source guys have responded and seem to be now sucessfully creating interfaces for these people. KDE, Gnome, even the Gimp seem well targetted to non programmer types immediatly come to mind.
The best ideas are been taken from the Mac, Windows and X, at the same timel retaining a well hidden flexibilty for programmer types. Its the best of both worlds.
I think Open Source programmers are so closely tied to their users that I feel within the year the year we will see the arguement might be totally reversed. That in fact all the marketing types companies have, making decisions for their own political and business reasons, that it is they who frequently ignore their users desires.
Personally I believe Windows to be not that intuitive , with the Mac probably representing the best out there currently, but that KDE (especially) and Gnome not to far behind.
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I think Open source authors are in fact more reponsive to their users. It just so happens that initially most users where other programmers.
No increasingly users are no longer programmers and the open source guys have responded and seem to be now sucessfully creating interfaces for these people. KDE, Gnome, even the Gimp seem well targetted to non programmer types immediatly come to mind.
The best ideas are been taken from the Mac, Windows and X, at the same timel retaining a well hidden flexibilty for programmer types. Its the best of both worlds.
I think Open Source programmers are so closely tied to their users that I feel within the year the year we will see the arguement might be totally reversed. That in fact all the marketing types companies have, making decisions for their own political and business reasons, that it is they who frequently ignore their users desires.
Personally I believe Windows to be not that intuitive
, with the Mac probably representing the best out there currently, but that KDE (especially) and Gnome not to far behind.