2006.01.29
Some People Get it.
01.15.45 - Mark
I'm not big on IM. I used to be then I started to need to have umpteen thousand different logins in half a dozen clients and I don't have enough screen space for my browser, let along half a dozen IM clients. However I've heard a lot of good things about Audium, a Free and Open Source Software IM Client for OS X. I haven't formed an opinion of it yet, but while I was installing it a little while ago, I realized its a perfect example of how much FOSS developers care about usability
In the disc image, while most developers will simply tell you to copy the application to your Applications folder, the team behind Adium make an alias (shortcut for the unenlightened Windows Users in the audience) to the Application. No opening other folders, no navigating directories, just click, hold, and drag the icon a screen inch or so and it's installed. Geeks care about usability. Just another reason why open source is better than proprietary software