[Sigia-l] UI for the $150 Laptop (OLPC)

[Zbigniew Lukasiak]

Personally I think it goes a bit deeper than that.  I do agree with
"The process of OSS app creation is overwhelmingly developer-driven" -
but this is not the root cause, just an intermediate syndrom. So the
question here is 'Why OSS is developer-driven?"

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Zbyszek

On 12/1/06, Ziya Oz <listera at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Antoine.Valot at ins.com:
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> > If the intended end-user for your critique is the OSS developer community...
>
> It is not. If I were to offer a critique (and I have not) it would *not* be
> intended for the (sole) benefit of the OSS community at all. The fact that
> the OSS community belittles criticism from non-members doesn't surprise me.
>
> Readers of this forum, going back many years, may recall that I have been
> fighting against developer supremacy in the creation of software for over 15
> years, both as a designer and developer.
>
> The process of OSS app creation is overwhelmingly developer-driven. Until
> and unless that's broken, not much will change with regards to UI/UX issues.
>
> Ziya
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