[Sigia-l] Marketing vs. design

[Jared M. Spool]

At 05:40 PM 11/20/2005, Alexander Johannesen wrote:
>You're right that the design of FOSS for most type of applications
>that have a commercial counter-point generally suck and is poorly
>designed, being that most of them comes from the "itch to scratch"
>departement, but you know ... you can always join a project of your
>liking and help out.

I'm reminded of Sturgeon's Law, which is derived from Theodore Sturgeon's 
response to the question, "Isn't most science fiction writing crud?" to 
which Sturgeon replied, "99% of everything is crud."

Maybe most FOSS applications are poorly designed because 99% of 
*everything* is poorly designed.

Jared


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