FLOSS usability issues for designers and its root cause

FLOSS developed for designers have lot of issues.

I could recognize:

a) Lesser features

b) No interoperability(photoshop file can be open illustrator file can be open in indesign and in other ways too)

c) Lesser reliability(crashes frequently)

d) Alien interface

e) (APPEND HERE latter)

While trying to understand why this is happening, I stumbled upon these nice articles :

a) http://mpt.net.nz/archive/2008/08/01/free-software-usability

Above link explains the problems and how to address the FOSS usability issues.

b) http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/viw/2313/2065

Above link is an comparative case study of two governmental OSS initiatives. One of the prime motive is to cut cost for IT infrastructure in government bodies with a prime theme of “we pay only once” for s/w license among the government bodies.

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