Re:Free software is suffering because coders don’t know how ...
by squarefoot on Friday June 02, 2017 @03:27PM
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... and (although to a lesser extent) user interfaces.
Writing software, its documentation and its way to interact with the user are three totally different beasts requiring different skill sets: documentation and UIs should be written with people in mind, not algorithms, so better not leave that task to a programmer.
Also, writing documentation and user interfaces isn't seen as k3w1 among coders so it's understandable that people good at writing docs and/or designing UIs are rather doing it for a fee outside the FS/OSS world than because they love it.
Writing software, its documentation and its way to interact with the user are three totally different beasts requiring different skill sets: documentation and UIs should be written with people in mind, not algorithms, so better not leave that task to a programmer.
Also, writing documentation and user interfaces isn't seen as k3w1 among coders so it's understandable that people good at writing docs and/or designing UIs are rather doing it for a fee outside the FS/OSS world than because they love it.