I have to say that I was at first also puzzled by the lack of secrecy around the beta program, although I understand what you mean about the SBC being a new category and thus not likely to cause the Osborne effect. I think many companies are also concerned about letting customers see what happens in the dev process "warts and all" - in that it will destroy the illusion of magic when a new shiny thing just appears on the shelf (Apple being the most obvious example of this!). I guess open source in general opens that door, but it's rare for many people (certainly not regular consumers) to be paying attention when a new O/S project is started. The slimserver model is already far away from what most users expect/understand (and it shows sometimes in the forum) - I think it was a brave move to extend it!
All that said, I was wondering (on a slightly tangential note) what the motivation behind locking up some of bugzilla is? I could understand it for closed code like the firmware, but it appears (as a non-dev) that there's a set of regular bug tickets which are closed to outsiders. All I can see that doing is adding noise & confusion as people submit tickets which are closed and marked as dupes of tickets they can't see :) Seems contrary to the open-ness mantra. -- radish ------------------------------------------------------------------------ radish's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=77 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=44061 _______________________________________________ jive mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/jive
