Comment by yjftsjthsd-h
4 years ago
If FOSS culture is bad at design, then one could imagine it being beneficial to just blindly copy an existing good design
4 years ago
If FOSS culture is bad at design, then one could imagine it being beneficial to just blindly copy an existing good design
Yeah, and there's no shame in that. Better copy something good than create something terrible. However, if you can only copy, you're limited to creating copycats of commercial software. In many cases, FOSS has strengths that others lack, where design and UX can be the difference between success and failure.
Except they only copy the look, not the feel, nor the development experience.