I am a designer with 20 years of experience. I've tried contributing to FOSS, but the developers are incredibly stubborn and work purely guided by their own assumptions. Hence the horrible UX on so much FOSS. There are more than enough design people that would love to contribute, but are met with nothing but ridicule and insults.

Counterpoint - if everything was FOSS it would be absolute chaos with no direction, conflicting goals, incomplete projects, and limited oversight... and also lots of inter-dev-team drama and forking.

For instance...

source

gestures to Windows' disk partitioner

Fair dues, Microsoft managed to fuck that up in spite of itself.

I don't disagree that it is a feature of organization, but if you're talking about creating a product that has been designed around a common philosophy and UX, that is diametrically opposed to fucking around with stuff. There's a place for that and it does improve people's skills, I also don't disagree there. All I'm saying is there exists a tendency for software produced by organizations to adhere to a UX philosophy.

There's a very good reasons why people and organisations will pay for proprietary software when there is a free alternative available.

Yup... risk transfer

Pay somebody else to take responsibility for pieces of your business process, then blame them when something goes wrong - that's why we have a contract.

There’s a very good reasons why people and organisations will pay for proprietary software when there is a free alternative available.

And there are also very good reasons why people and organisations are stopping relying on proprietary software and switching to open alternatives that won't lock them up.

I'm not saying it's fundamental, sorry, I should have specified. You're exactly right, GNOME is driven by it's Foundation and so there is leadership in place to make sure that the software ends up as a cohesive whole. Software projects that don't, or that create one after the fact, tend to be a lot less so.

they made Canadian money free?? count me in

Hm maybe I'll check ot out again someday, but being able to use professional CAD it's so much of a difference in productivity that it feels really bad.

Not cool, mate

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