Brazil (Linux Journal)
Posted Jul 14, 2006 21:46 UTC (Fri) by
JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330)
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Brazil (Linux Journal)
He's basically saying that free software tends to only advance to the point where it is usable by its designers, who then lose interest in improving it further to be more generally usable.
But this is why I think that projects like One Laptop Per Child are going to help a lot. For that project to work, a lot of smart people are going to have to make free software both more usable and a lot less bloated, and there are many signs that they are making major progress.
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