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Ease of use

IW: Why are you concerned about ease of use when many Linux developers see it as a lesser issue?

Shuttleworth: I’m not brilliant technically like Linux Torvalds. I feel the gaps in Linux usability personally. When you’re an exceptional developer, you can be blinded to the ease of use issues. Besides, people gravitate to the problems that they’re best equipped to help fix.

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This was written by Serge van Ginderachter. Posted on Saturday, December 15, 2007, at 20:31. Filed under Archive. Bookmark the permalink. Follow comments here with the RSS feed. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.

5 Comments

  1. elise wrote:

    i asked myself exactly the same question today … Frank Louwers could probably answer this.

    Sunday, December 16, 2007 at 20:12 | Permalink
  2. Serge van Ginderachter wrote:

    I’m curious. What do you mean?

    Sunday, December 16, 2007 at 20:29 | Permalink
  3. elise wrote:

    well, he’s the person behind this algorithm, apparently.

    Sunday, December 16, 2007 at 20:32 | Permalink
  4. Serge van Ginderachter wrote:

    Elise, I think you are commenting on the wrong post :-)

    Sunday, December 16, 2007 at 20:35 | Permalink
  5. elise wrote:

    indeed :-) sorry

    Sunday, December 16, 2007 at 20:36 | Permalink

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