A camel is a horse designed by a committee
One of the difficulties with open-source software is the sheer number of fingers that work their way into the pot. It’s hard to have an overriding design vision in a distributed development environment. I’m a huge supporter of open-source software, but rarely find myself actually using it. This mouse is the only reason why that I’ll ever need to point to:
Believe it or not, that little nub you see on the left side of the device (top of pic) isn’t a button. It’s a joystick.
I shouldn’t be too snarky — I imagine if someone actually devoted the time to learning how to use this thing it could be useful. The FAQ says you can learn it in as little as two days. But really, isn’t there something wrong with the idea of an input device that takes two days to learn?
It also seems to me that charging $74.99 for such a beast goes somewhat against the grain of the open-source movement (especially given how cheap it looks). That’s $5 more than Apple’s Magic Mouse! Shouldn’t they just have released the design specs and let everyone build their own?
