Reminds me of the time a product I was working on was going to be
shipped to a customer with an entirely new, mostly untested, database
layer. In the kickoff meeting the customer finally asked if they were
getting beta code. My boss with a straight face said "No it's not." No
lie that, it was alpha code...
Needless to say, my former employer is no longer really in the business...
Doug Franklin wrote:
>Igor Roshchin wrote:
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>>There is programmers' (in particular Russian programmers') joke:
>>- Why is it called 'beta'-version?
>>- Because it is better than nothing.
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>Sometimes, beta is not better than nothing. :-)
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>>PS. Despite its possibly perceived appearance, this message is not
>>intended to bash or mock anybody or anything, except for some
>>beta-versions of software.
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>Since I'm a software developer for a living, I have license to poke fun
>at them. :-)
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