[ale] Wine

[Ben Coleman]

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Geoffrey wrote:
> Christopher Fowler wrote:
>> Crazy question.  Is there _any_ other program that could be the longest
>> program in history to be in Beta mode?  I played with Wine in 1995 and
>> it still was in beta mode then.  <flamebait>At some point you have to
>> simply just say its good enough for release.  No software product will
>> ever be perfect</flamebait>
> 
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> The interesting thing I find about all this is that most open source 
> betas are as stable or more then their commercial alternatives.  A very 
> good example is Linux.  For the longest time I was running the 
> development kernel tree.   I rarely had any problems.  Windows on the 
> other hand....

Yup.  My take on this is that the commercial software is really still beta
quality, it's just that it's considered bad marketing to admit it.  Open
source developers, generally not having to deal with a marketing department,
just manage to be more honest about it.

Ben
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