Why Free Software Usability Sucks

Posted on February 7, 2008
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This really, really old article on Why Free Software Usability Tends to Suck (from 2002 but still valid though they start out talking about “free” and immediately confuse that as synonymous with “open source”) has hit Reddit again. And will again, and again, and again I’m sure.

Fortunately the whole “argument” about why software made freely-available (OSS or not) tends to have worse usability than its commercial counter-parts can really be succinctly condensed into these two statements:

  1. Free software: works for me.
  2. Commercial software: works for you?

’nuff said.

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