Star Open Source Design and the OpenOfficeMouse
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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RE: More Apple-centric palaver
by lemur2 on Sun 8th Nov 2009 23:47 UTC in reply to "More Apple-centric palaver"
lemur2
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I don't know of any "norm" in "open source design." I don't even know what he means by "open source design." However, the "norm" mouse for most users of open source OSs is probably a simple 2-button/3-button/scrollwheel mouse. What a terrible, erroneous article.


Precisely so. Mod parent up.

BTW: I have seen literally thousands of "FAIL" designs touted for Windows or Mac applications, with never a suggestion that this makes Windows or Mac users look ridiculous. After all, the Windows or Mac users didn't make the design.

So why this article's inane slur against "open source design" whatever that is supposed to be?

What is wrong with simply having a go at the designers of the mouse in question, and leaving it at that?

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