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One of the issues in the open-source movement is the complete disregard for UX. Freedom is a noble goal, but I don't care how free your software/device is if I
by Rjevski 9y ago
One of the issues in the open-source movement is the complete disregard for UX. Freedom is a noble goal, but I don't care how free your software/device is if I need to be an engineer and spend hours in the command line to accomplish a simple task.
Until this changes we won't see much progress of open-source in the real world. For such a phone to succeed it needs to be as easy to use (if not more) as its proprietary competitors.
- Nursie 9y ago>> Until this changes we won't see much progress of open-source in the real world. What's the "real world" here? Open Source software has made great strides in the mobile and server/datacentre space. Open source UIs used by the general public, less so sure. But then one could argue that most of the UI frameworks people use these days are open source and written in JS...
- Rjevski 9y agoReal world, as in non-technical users. Yes, open-source libraries are indeed everywhere - I was talking about a complete open-source OS, like a Linux distro. Sorry for the confusion.
- Nursie 9y ago>> I was talking about a complete open-source OS, like a Linux distro Linux distros are huge in the datacentre and server farm, and AFAICT Android is open source.... But I do know what you're getting at, and Openmoko had a huge problem with UI/UX - it's not even that it was a bad UX, it's that the underlying platform was constantly shifting so radically that there wasn't a good base to build UX on!