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The thing is, for ease of use you do not just need developers. You need user testing. And that is something you can only do when you are a big corp (which is committed to usability). So, that's where google or sun come in.
by nanne (zwaerdenmaecker@gmail.com) on Fri Jan 30th, 2009 at 02:08:01 PM EST
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... user testing depends of course on the complexity of the toolkit being tested.

There's no peer to peer network at present that can on its own cope with the usability testing demands of the Open Source toolkits at the level of complexity of OpenOffice or Chrome. On the other hand, there is Sun and Google, looking to leverage Open Source contributions by making those toolkits Open Source. A need for corporate contributions to user testing of large scale applications would be a hurdle if there were not the corporations with an incentive to make those contributions.

I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.

by BruceMcF (agila61 at netscape dot net) on Fri Jan 30th, 2009 at 02:38:10 PM EST
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