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Matt Asay has an interesting item up today called What open source can learn from Apple, in which he notes that as a developer-driven phenomenon, much of the best open source software ends up being written for other developers. He points to the success Linux is on the server, where it reaches a technical audience, but notes that it largely loses on the desktop, where a less technical audience is present. Apple has the opposite problem, he writes. It is religiously focused on usability, but struggles to open up to outside developers. Can open source take a usability lesson from Apple?