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Subject: Re: How did "beta-test" get it's name?

Author: Matthew White

Date: 12:08:19 03/12/03

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On March 12, 2003 at 12:32:07, Daniel Clausen wrote:

>On March 12, 2003 at 12:21:06, Louis Fagliano wrote:
>

>Of course, thanks to all the marketing guys, the pure 'meanings' are not really
>followed anymore. (similar to version-numbers - see the browsers...) Well, in
>open-source projects it's different, because the marketing guys are non-existant
>there..
>
>Sargon

Sounds like someone who has worked in QA before ;). I definitely agree with this
statement. Beta is supposed to be feature complete, but it often ends up
"pseudo-feature complete" (i.e. features are "kinda" there, but not quite
working correctly) due to the marketing timeline.

Matt



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