From: "Tony Ingenoso" 

People will use it.  Getting them to actually test in any sort of rigorous
manner is the hard part.   When I was at Borland we had
this problem - beta feedback would come back saying "ship it" its
great, but we knew it was still a rank POS from internal testing.

This is one of the problem in the Linux world.  The quantity of egregious
install bugs and problems is *MASSIVE*, because the community doesn't
bother to tread beyond their own little beaten path.  ex. Its been what, 10
years now that Linux has been floating about in a supposedly "usable
form" - hook a monochrome VGA display up and see how far you get.  On
most distros you won't be able to read the menus because nobody ever
bothered to put 3 instruction into the boot loader code to set a color
video mode so the color output would be grey scaled correctly.  VGA on a
monoVGA display is defined to come up in mono modes.   Similarly, its
obvious the
KDE developers never bother to test anything at an ordinary 640x480 VGA
video resolution.

"Geo."  wrote in message
news:405cc1a6$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> why not? It always amazes me how software vendors are reluctant to do public
> betas. There are tons of talented people out there willing to do testing for
> free simply because they like playing with the latest and greatest. all you
> need is a good system for getting feedback from them.
>
> Geo.

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