BobbyBonsai

> I agree with the point that there is a lack of respect for designers in the area...

That's because it looks like everything designers are touching (Gnome3, Unity and partly Firefox) starts to turn to crap.

Yes, I completely respect Designers and I understand that they can do wonders for every FLOSS project and I know that this sentence is completely biased...but there are many examples out there were a designer (or multiple) are trying to stuff their vision down our throats without any afterthoughts.

Speed comes with refactoring (most of the time).

So what?

Well, I think many developers know the feeling when working with a codebase which just feels like riding a dead horse...uphill, both ways, in the cold...and when you manage to refactor some part it starts to feel like it gets up on one leg and so on.

Tha article only talks about "The Senate Armed Service Committee"...sounds not like the The Senate or Congress, but rather a small company of people which most likely know what they're doing.

Steve Ballmer: "We designed Windows 8 for the world we know, in which most computers are mobile."

That explains EVERYTHING!