Linked by Kroc Camen on Sun 8th Nov 2009 10:21 UTC
Hardware, Embedded Systems Is complexity (and wearing this on the outside) an inherit part of open source design? FactoryJoe compares the OpenOfficeMouse (a mouse with 18 programmable buttons and even an analogue joystick) and the Apple Magic Mouse-"To me, the OpenOfficeMouse seems like such a typical product from the open source community." [Kroc: I honestly believed the OpenOfficeMouse to be a very clever satirical joke, the irony that it isn't suspends belief]
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by renhoek on Sun 8th Nov 2009 12:08 UTC
renhoek
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Just ducktape an amiga to your mouse and get it over with.

Using a mouse a lot with a text processor is a really bad idea in the first place. But i still got the idea this is a bad aprils fools joke.