Jono Bacon: Balancing Freedom and Functionality: A Design Challenge
I want to share a short story with you folks as the basis for a little challenge I wanted to set. Let me start at the beginning.
A little while back John Lea, a member of the Canonical Design Team filed this bug. The essence of the bug was grounded in one of the check-boxes on one of the pages of the Ubuntu installer.
The third-party software check-box is a useful little feature in which some non-free components can be easily installed at the install time if the user so desires so. The check-box is designed to solve the problem where things don’t work because there is no Open Source solution available.
The bug was proposing that the check-box be ticked by default with the goal of ensuring that the user does not get a broken experience.
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