Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 7th Feb 2008 22:47 UTC, submitted by tyrione
Linus Torvalds, leader of the cult of Linux, took a swipe at Apple's OS X and Microsoft Vista in the same breath at a conference in Australia last week. Speaking at the linux.conf.au conference in Melbourne, Australia, a few weeks ago, Torvalds called Leopard 'utter crap' and bashed the proprietary OS makers for being greedy, according to Australian reporter Nick Miller in the The Age. "I don't think they're equally flawed - I think Leopard is a much better system," Torvalds said. "(But) OS X in some ways is actually worse than Windows to program for. Their file system is complete and utter crap, which is scary." He also scoffed at his rivals' practice of revenue-through-renewal by launching upgrades that require new purchases. "An operating system should be completely invisible," Torvalds said. "To Microsoft and Apple (it is) a way to control the whole environment - to force people to upgrade their applications and hardware."
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in response to b:
I truly don't believe, opensource companies will make their products harder to use: because of several reasons:
-: A lot of companies want support, so they can poke someone when something goes terribly wrong etc, not because their own experts can't work with the software
-: competition can use usability to create their products more appealing, (unless they suddenly all agree to generate equally bad products)
-: tech support already get's loads of phone calls about truly basic questions for the so-called user friendly software (ex: "Where's the 'anykey'?").
-: creating a steep learning curve, scares away a lot of users and potential developers etc
(currently I'm learning Cg and if nVidia made it difficult, I would never started learning it on my own)
Of course those are just couple reasons for a sane company, I've seen enough companies that do wacky stuff