The recent complaints about the new Gmail compose interface got me thinking about this essay from pg. I can understand why Google, Facebook, Apple, and Microsof

The recent complaints about the new Gmail compose interface got me thinking about this essay from pg. I can understand why Google, Facebook, Apple, and Microsoft would design software for the masses. But I think we, the hacker community, should promote and support (financially and otherwise) software that follows the design philosophy that pg articulated here.