Re: [Usability] "Three Traps" (from Cooper Interaction Design newsletter)

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Alex Barnes <alex barnes sympatico ca> writes: 
> So, I'm wondering if it is even remotely possible to meet all of
> everyone's needs?  (would specific needs-based distributions solve this,
> such as a RedHat Business User Edition, HomeUser Edition, etc? somehow I
> doubt it...) or is his theory crap?

I think he has a good point, at the same time he's assuming fixed
resources that can all be aimed at one problem, while in open source
we have a ton of resources that are most easily aimed at lots of
little parallel problems.

Havoc