[slightly OT] Re: Design... (was Re: rp-pppoe )

[Michael T. Richter]

On Thu, 2007-05-07 at 14:15 +1000, Peter Garrett wrote:

> > Never, ever, ever let systems-level engineers do human interaction
> > design unless they have displayed a proven secondary talent in that
> > area. Their opinion of what represents good human-computer interaction
> > tends to be a bit off-track. (Bruce Tognazzini)



> I would say it summarises more problems than just DSL , in Linux.



> Marked slightly off-topic, as you see ...  but it's an important point,
> for sure.


Last time I suggested that people writing F/LOSS software should
consider their users a little more I got flamed to perdition.  I thought
it would be best to focus only on DSL this time.  (But truth be told:
the arrogant contempt that the F/LOSS community holds for end-users is a
problem and it's one that needs to be solved.)

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