Usability in Open Source Software
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| Celeste Lyn Paul is Senior Interaction Architect for User-Centered Design,
| Inc., organizes the KDE Usability Project, and works with open source
| projects such as KDE, Linux Foundation, OpenUsability, and Ubuntu.
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http://www.upassoc.org/upa_publications/upa_voice/volumes/2008/february/usability-open-source.html
Microsoft's "Usability FUD" only relies on this notion that
"if {linux==Windows} then friendly(); else unfriendly();"
Speaking of which, this latest KDE digest contains the following bit:
KDE Commit Digest
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| Mono (C#) KDE bindings reach a usable state.
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http://commit-digest.org/issues/2008-02-10/
Related:
OpenSolaris, Gobuntu, and be careful who you kiss
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| I read the agreement between Xandros and Microsoft, and one of the excluded
| products was Mono, so Microsoft promises to not sue Xandros over their
| distribution but excluding Mono and a few other products, i.e. they reserve
| the right to sue over Mono. I wonder if this is an interesting preview of on
| what basis they want to fight the free world.
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| Interestingly, the Novell deal seems to be different, Mono is not excluded
| from the Novell deal. So Microsoft seems to be promising not to sue Novell
| over Mono, but keeps the option open for Xandros. Weird but true.
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http://commandline.org.uk/2007/be-careful-who-you-kiss/
Miguel, Mono and Microsoft
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| is Mono's role in the deal that of a hook to make customers write
| .NET applications because they can be run on Linux - only to find
| later on that they are armless or legless because of a change in
| the .NETspecifications, a change which Microsoft decides not to
| make public?
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| [...]
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| And here we have an individual who decides to replicate one of
| the proprietary company's development environments - for reasons
| best known to him alone - and keeps telling people that the reason
| he's doing it is so that he can pull people over from the
| proprietary company's side to his side!!!
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http://www.itwire.com.au/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=11081&Itemid=1091
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