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Open Source Design and the OpenOfficeMouse

Linked by Kroc Camen on Sun 8th Nov 2009 10:21 UTC

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[3]: You must not have to use your computer for much

by nt_jerkface on Tue 10th Nov 2009 01:29 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: You must not have to use your computer for much"

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Modded down for pointing out that "dir" (short for directory) is no less or more cryptic than "ls" (short for list structure)

You probably got modded down for plugging OpenOffice and Linux like you do in every story. We all know about OpenOffice and Linux. This is OSNEWS afterall.

As for ls it a lousy acronym where list would be a better choice. But even barring lousy two letter acronyms there are plenty of common Unix commands that have poor names and give no indication as to what they are used for like Grep, Sed, Awk, Emacs, Lpr/Lprm, and Vi to name a few. The fact that they chose 'man' instead of 'help' and didn't even bother creating an alias says enough. What else would someone try if they don't know what to do?

Unix is a silly handshakes club. It gets the job done yes but only after you learn all the silly handshakes.

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