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Brendan McKay (bdm@cs.rit.edu) wrote:
: You have low standards!  Note what your discovery implies: that the
: Netscape crowd never tested it over an extended period of time.
: What sort of beta release is that?  What sort of shitty company is that?

Beta implies that the code is (at least mostly) complete but needs
testing.  Now, certainly no coder would ever run for 2 hours without
stopping, unless 1) He/she was playing or 2) he/she got a bug report
that required 2 hours of running to produce.  That entire point of
a BETA version is to find bugs such as these that the programmers, (and
quite often the internal testers) cannot find because they do not use
the program in the same manner as the intended audience.

You are also ignoring the obvious.  BETA==has bugs (Actually released
==has bugs but that is a different discussion.)  It is entirely
possible that this bug was know to Netscape but they released the
BETA version anyway.  This is a perfectly acceptable scenario that
always takes place.  As long as this bug does not do any damage to
the user's system and does not seriously deter the testing process,
why hold up a BETA release to fix it?  I guarantee you cannot find
a single piece of major software that has been released  without
known bugs (BETA or otherwise).

Jim