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Re: Why promote vaporware?

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____/ ray on Tuesday 30 June 2009 20:20 : \____

> On Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:08:13 -0700, Tim Smith wrote:
> 
>> In article <1455365.vQuBPLD70Z@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>>  Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> KDevelop 4 Beta 4 Released
>>> 
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>> | On behalf of the KDevelop team I am happy to announce the Beta 4 |
>>> release of KDevelop 4. This release includes some major new | features,
>>> such as working sets (only available when building with | KDE 4.3),
>>> integration of the quickopen functionality into the | toolbar and a new
>>> perspective switcher (see the upper right corner | of the mainwindow).
>>> We have of course also fixed again a lot of | bugs, for example
>>> non-text files such as images will not crash | KDevelop anymore when
>>> closing them, Valgrind execution is working | again, the debugger's
>>> variable view has been fixed and a lot of | crash fixes related to
>>> parsing and code-completion popups. | Altogether we have managed to fix
>>> 30 bugs in just 30 days. `----
>>> 
>>> http://www.kdenews.org/2009/06/28/kdevelop-4-beta-4-released
>> 
>> You were complaining just a while back about the press promoting
>> vaporware by talking about Windows 7. If the product is not available in
>> a release version, not a beta or release candidate version, according to
>> you, it is vaporware, and it is wrong to talk about it.
>> 
>> How come, then, it's OK for you to talk about a beta of KDevelop?
> 
> One reason could be availability. The beta of kdevelop would be available
> freely to anyone. AFAIK win7 beta is not.

It also 'spontaneously explodes' after a period of time. The kill switch is
there to be forcibly used. Not quite the same as Free software...


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