[openbeos] Re: More talk on approach to R1 [desperately trying to change from Re: Tracker icons]
- From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 19:25:30 +0200 CEST
"Simon Taylor" <simontaylor1@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I don't think you should discount this happening - the release will
> certainly get slashdotted, which while not reaching the average Joe
> user will still lead to interest from people who perhaps haven't used
> BeOS before.
Sure.
> Exactly the same release will lead to quite different reactions from
> those outside the project if it is "PR" rather than "R1" IMHO. Using
> a
> "PR" will encourage people to look for potential (where we would
> score
> very highly), using an "R1" could well lead to an expectation of
> completeness, and encourage users to complare Haiku feature-for-
> feature
> with other systems and then disregard it.
It's not a preview release, it's the real thing - complete in the
meaning of what we want to reach with R1. It's meant to be usable. It's
meant to be adopted.
I don't think anybody looking into it expects this to be the end of the
road. We should just make sure our idea of the future is spread with
R1.
Bye,
Axel.
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