Submission + - What Could Be Done to Improve Open Source Apps?
An anonymous reader writes: Matt Hartley of OSWeekly.com outlines the flaws that currently prevent OSS apps from going mainstream. He gives his opinion and asks the community to chime in with our thoughts. He writes, "The single biggest thing that's working against Linux distributions, and even open source as a whole today is human nature pure and simple.
End users are showing us their human side by jumping to conclusions rather than deciding whether or not something is worth supporting to make it better. For example, more often than not, we see a fantastic application full of possibilities dismissed by some end users because it lacks a certain level of perfection. In other cases, these are apps that in order to realize any level of functionality, they require some level of adoption before the closed source alternatives can be considered unnecessary.
