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Thanks to google making beta cool, now dev and companies have stopped lying about something being 1.0 when it really should be 0.1 beta 0.1

• archangel_one 15y ago
  Conversely: some companies call products 0.1 beta 0.1 when they really should be 1.0. To me, when you release something to customers generally, that's (at least) 1.0. Calling it "beta" seems like a disingenuous way of avoiding taking full responsibility for bugs.
  • rbanffy 15y ago
    I wouldn't call it disingenuous. Putting a Beta label on a product says clearly "may not always work, proceed at your own risk". When you need add features faster than you can exhaustively (as in aerospace-grade) test them, it's an act of balance. It has to work well enough to be useful, but it also needs to have the coolest features. And it's not like, say, Windows, after about a quarter of a century, has been fully debugged.