Yes. Absolutely. UI design doesn't work in the OSS "bazaar model". It needs a pope who is generally regarded as infallible, and deferred to even when not. Alternatively, a rather strict set of rules like Apple's HIIG might work, possibly created and enforced in a process like Wikipedia's.
I've repeatedly cringed when watching some eager young guy set his grandfather up with Linux. It may have improved now, but having once seen a 75-year old type commands into a terminal as dictated over the phone to install flash has thoroughly ruined any instinct to proselytize I may have had.
Yes. Absolutely. UI design doesn't work in the OSS "bazaar model". It needs a pope who is generally regarded as infallible, and deferred to even when not. Alternatively, a rather strict set of rules like Apple's HIIG might work, possibly created and enforced in a process like Wikipedia's.
I've repeatedly cringed when watching some eager young guy set his grandfather up with Linux. It may have improved now, but having once seen a 75-year old type commands into a terminal as dictated over the phone to install flash has thoroughly ruined any instinct to proselytize I may have had.