“Re: Alpha Beta Soup”

On Thu, 27 Mar 2003 11:47:16 -0500, Seth Dillingham wrote:
>The recent practice of releasing software in the alpha stage to get user feedback
>confuses people about these terms, but doesn't change the meanings.

Well, the fact that the terms are used inconsistently by software vendors is the source of confusion on the user-side.

Safari, for example, is in "public beta" -- but is far from feature complete, based on reports of newer builds on the web.

g.