Re:Hong Kong protest safety app banned from iOS store
by swiley on Thursday October 03, 2019 @01:39PM
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A lot of commercial software focuses on building cool GUIs because selling the software is the whole point. The point of community maintained software is to solve some problem some people have and so that’s what gets focused on.
I don’t think tacking “cool stuff” onto free software is the answer, I would argue education is.
Much like how we educate kids on the dangers of false advertising we should educate them on the dangers of non-free software.
Re:Hong Kong protest safety app banned from iOS store
by kaolti on Friday October 04, 2019 @04:06AM
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I agree with you, but what I mean is people will be more inclined to use software that looks good - more broadly good UI/UX and I don't mean gimmicks. That's just how it is.
I don’t think tacking “cool stuff” onto free software is the answer, I would argue education is.
Much like how we educate kids on the dangers of false advertising we should educate them on the dangers of non-free software.