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By Adam Gaffin
Network World Fusion, 04/17/02

Matthew Thomas lists 10 reason, all of which can be summed up:
(I)n practice, the vast majority of open-source projects are also volunteer projects; and it seems that the use of volunteers to drive development inevitably leads the interface design to suck.

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