> You could have good FOSS usability - if you had a central > company driving the development. As in Firefox. It just > hasn't happened many times so far, b

> You could have good FOSS usability - if you had a central > company driving the development. As in Firefox. It just > hasn't happened many times so far, because people are > willing to pay for good closed-source interfaces in most > problem domains. Actually, Firefox was originally started by two guys as a reaction against the centralized development that was at the time occurring with the Mozilla browser. The Mozilla foundation officially came on board later, well after Firefox gained momentum and popularity.