The truth is, I want them to succeed. They may not defeat FB, but perhaps they'll give us a legit alternative. And yes, I understand that it was a developer re

The truth is, I want them to succeed. They may not defeat FB, but perhaps they'll give us a legit alternative. And yes, I understand that it was a developer release, pre-alpha, or whatever you want to call it, but a release is a release and it people will form opinions of the software because of it. Remember KDE 4.0? It was unusable but it was released, and a lot of controversy and annoyance came out of it. Remember Netscape's brilliant idea of letting real users be its "beta testers"? That was a bad idea. It doesn't matter what you tag a release as; a buggy release is a buggy release. I will look at the next stable release with an open mind, but there is no reason for me to blindly discard their past.