joeyo on The One in Which I Say Open Source Software Sucks

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  > You could have good FOSS usability - if you had a central
  > company driving the development. As in Firefox. It just
  > hasn't happened many times so far, because people are
  > willing to pay for good closed-source interfaces in most
  > problem domains.

Actually, Firefox was originally started by two guys as a reaction against the centralized development that was at the time occurring with the Mozilla browser. The Mozilla foundation officially came on board later, well after Firefox gained momentum and popularity.

rjurney 17y

And thus they were the central force driving good usability. They did it just for fun - or was it a company?

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