Am 30.06.2008 um 12:36 schrieb Jason Stephenson:
Certainly, *we* expect that the builds could be unstable, but what about J. Random Blogger who downloads the latest snapshot (more or less at random) to look at the native Aqua of OO.o 3.0 beta and sees these apparently random crashes? Now, J. Random goes back to his blog and announces to the world, OO.o Aqua is crap, better go with Neo.....
This thread reminds me of the Opera Desktop Team weekly builds, http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/ Nearly every release is accompanied by a disclaimer highlighting the fact that it is work in progress and you may lose data and a list of known issues. But you only have to read the posts to realise that the vast majority never bother to read the label. It's distressing but in some ways this largely the software industry's own fault with a "release early, release often" approach.
The blogosphere is full of crap and it's wrong to be taken in by the onanistic self-importance of it all: it's natural for people to be more vocal about their dissatisfaction than about their satisfaction. You can only counter this by getting up positive but honest reviews of snapshots.
I've been using OO (aqua because X11's font rendering is just so nasty) in one form or another (own builds, Eric's private releases, Maho's milestones and Sun's beta) for over a year and have had no significant problems apart from a tendency to produce buggy PDFs. I'm not a heavy document creator but I do get a lot of MS Office documents that I have to be able to read and I've been very impressed with the handling of them. But because the software has largely conformed to my expectations I haven't been out in the streets proclaiming that heaven on earth has indeed arrived, although I got close once clipboard support was introduced.
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