http://jorgeferrer.com/portal/taxonomy/term/2/0 en http://jorgeferrer.com/portal/node/15 <p>Yesterday I bought a License of <a href="http://www.humanized.com/products/enso/launcher/">Enso Launcher</a> and I realized that it's the first license that I've ever bought voluntarily. </p> <p>First of all I want to clarify that doesn't mean that all of the other software I'm using doesn't have a license, it's just that it came with the computer or it does not require a license. In fact I usually use only open source software with very few exceptions.</p> <p>So what is <a href="http://www.humanized.com/products/enso/launcher/">Enso Launcher</a> and why did I buy a license? It is a product meant to make the computer easier to use inspired by the ideas of Jeff Raskin in The Humane Interface. I really enjoyed reading that book so it was great to see that someone had made it real. Accidentally I've been using Windows for a while and really missed the command line, so Enso was a perfect fit for me. They are really showing how good a command interface can be (emacs users already knew, enso has a lot of the concepts of emacs commands but with an improved UI).</p> <p><a href="http://jorgeferrer.com/portal/node/15">read more</a></p> http://jorgeferrer.com/portal/node/15#comment Tech Blog usability foss Thu, 01 Mar 2007 03:24:57 -0600 jorge 15 at http://jorgeferrer.com/portal