> Not to trivialize your post, but there is a proverb that says: "make your product easy to use for idiots, and soon only idiots will use it". Remember proverbs, those things that existed before memes; they all have some truth in them.
'Make your product easy to use for idiots, and soon only idiots will use it.'
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'Make your product pointlessly frustrating to use, and soon only three people on LWN will use it.' - Stone's Corollary
Posted Nov 9, 2012 1:39 UTC (Fri) by jspaleta (subscriber, #50639)
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I'm pretty sure I've got software I'm actively hacking on in-house right now that breaks Stone's Corollary. In that no other LWN reader would choose to use it.