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Subject: Re: The Privilege to Be an after-purchasing tester...

Author: Mogens Larsen

Date: 14:43:45 09/07/00

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On September 07, 2000 at 17:05:09, Fernando Villegas wrote:

>No, Mogens. I did not even asked to be one. I cannot be. I have not the time and
>the will to do such a thing. Besides, my PC is an old one, 200 Mhz mmx. Time ago
>I lost my desire to keep pace with this race of speedier pc, each week. And I do
>not have the need to be a tester as much as I am rich enough to buy my own
>programs when they are available, neither I have the ilusion I can be "part" of
>a glamourous software team because I found a glitch in the gui or so. I was just
>remembering what factuaklkly happens each time we get a new program. Or you have
>another experience? Maybe is my bad luck :-(
>fERNANDO

I didn't mean to imply that you're writing out of bitterness, though it may read
as such :o). Just a little surprised about what suddenly sparked this interest
in betatesting and how you do it. Especially right after Schröder's search for
volunteers. I can recall software misbehaving except for Windows, but I gather
that is intentional :o).

Mogens.

PS: I hope this isn't too complicated to comprehend for our zero-sum annotator.



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