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=Intro=

Something that just works, is bare bones, is better for wide adoption than a polished product that takes long to get to market. Put in another way, User Interface comes after Functionality. Aka the New Jersey Approach.

The property that makes for Worse-is-Better is modularity - easy improvability and adaptability. This is also known as Growable-is-Better.

==Metphysically Speaking==
If you analize the language of Worse is Better, you will notice that it implies that worse vs better depends on what metric you are using. In other words - worse is better implies that the thing in question is worse by some metrics and better by others - so the real question becomes what metric is being used - and more fundamentally - the phrase emphasizes that something can be evaluated from different perspectives. Thus, worse or better - depends on what aspect you are analizing.

=Notable Examples=
*Note that Linux was explicitly built on the worse is better concept when it comes to its monolithic kernel design - a known bad design that works better in practice. Stallman proposed a modular kernel - and 3 decades later - product hasn't shipped yet.

=OSE Case=
*In the OSE case, since we publish early and often, and make in-progress work accessible for the reason of unleashed collaboration and cultural creation - we de facto operate on the Growable-is-Better version of worse-is-better. We avoid the worse-is-better stage, because our initial design is designed with growability, according to [[OSE Specifications]], in particular, [[OSE Spec 3]] - modularity. Modularity is be definition growable.
*[[The OSE Filter]] includes worse is better. Growable-is-better is achieved by modular design  - as with [[Incremental Housing]] is an example of worse-is-better.

=Links=
*Growable is Better, Stanford CS Departmetn - [https://cs.stanford.edu/people/eroberts/courses/cs181/projects/2010-11/WorseIsBetter/index.php/Growable-is-better.html]
*Worse is Better, Stanford CS Departmetn - [https://cs.stanford.edu/people/eroberts/courses/cs181/projects/2010-11/WorseIsBetter/index.php/Worse-is-better.html]