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Re: Icon designer wanted (Aquamacs Emacs)
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David Kastrup |
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Re: Icon designer wanted (Aquamacs Emacs) |
Date: |
Sun, 08 Jan 2006 11:29:35 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Joe Bush <bushj004@hawaii.rr.com> writes:
> I disagree with the notion that commercial software is, as a general
> rule,superior to free software. It may have a better HMI, and look
> nicer, but that doesn't guarantee better performance under the hood.
I was talking about the case where we have _existing_ established
software, and _new_ software with a similar goal gets developed. The
newcomer starts out as the underdog. This has nothing to do with
free/nonfree.
A lot of software dies the "why bother?" death early on. Free
software has an answer to that question: "because it is free".
> I've never used an apple, so I can only comment on MS products. I
> think that Microsoft's HMI should in no way be held up as the
> standard to which everything else is measured.
Sure. A bunch of baloney filtered through usability labs might still
be a bunch of baloney. I was just talking about
"established/fledgling", and that is, free or nonfree, a difficult
position to start with. Lots of free software has been able to pull
this off because of the single advantage of being free.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
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