[thelist] Re:Netscape 6 Preview Release 1

Just to clarify here folks, this *isn't* a beta. Its a preview release.
Scott is right when he says beta's in the traditional sense of the word
are feature complete.

Repeat with me: This isn't a beta. This isn't a beta. :)

Speaking of beta's in the untraditional sense, anyone else notice that
ICQ has been in beta for over two years?
heh..

.djc.

Scott Johnson wrote:
> 
> >Not to pick on you, Aaron, but doesn't everybody understand that THIS IS A
> >BETA!
> >
> >    It WILL crash. Probably frequently.
> >    It might even hose your system.
> >    It has all the debug code in it still.
> >    It's bloated.
> >    It hasn't been optimized.
> >    It's not even feature complete.
> 
> If it's not feature complete then, strictly speaking, it's not beta.  By
> definition beta stage software is feature complete with known bugs.  And
> given the problems a lot of people are mentioning I would say it's really
> still alpha (and a mid-level alpha at that given it's apparent lack of