On 1/08/00, at 10:18, Benjamin Cramer truempyi@YAHOO.COM said:
>While public beta programs may not be desirable, and secrecy about new
>product features may make sense for software that has huge-scale
>distribution, it seems to me that allowing customers who have bought the
>current version to beta-test the next makes good business sense for a
>company reliant on a small clientele.
Sure, this may be the case. But it all depends on the mind-set of the
company, and how the developers interact with users. You pointed that
out quite well in a previous message...
I think there is justification for both ways of working. It's just that
Nisus does it a way that you don't particularly like, which is fine.
Do be aware that there were extensive discussions about new features, and
surveys of users, some months ago (maybe a year ago, actually). The
debates got quite heated, but the problem with a word processor is that
the possible feature list is so long that it is impossible to please everyone.
Kirk
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