Dick said:
It's all beta... sure; but I wish that all software in their final
release would be running as stable and would be working as good as
FrontGate MX in its beta. The reason for the "ongoing beta releases" is
that the developer are people who are not easily being satisified with
what they write (unlike some other companies we *both* know of).
Have you tried it? Why not? All that could happen is that you get
1. No
2a. See FAQ about Linux port.
2b. Because I don't get much spam and because my email client is
automatically deleting swen mail from the server on every mail run, in
the background.
spammed (which you won't... I can tell you that on beforehand). So why
"judge" a program you don't know? IMO FrontGate is a perfect (and
I didn't "judge" it -- I said it was beta, which information they
readily attest to. Repeating what the authors say is hardly judging
it, Dick, or the authors are guilty of the same thing. If one runs the
fact that it's a beta through the sieve of the afc definitions of
freewere, then the beta gets caught in the mesh and doesn't flow through
into the awaiting freeware container below.
I spent a lot of time on the site, reading about the program, and was
nearly finished with a post that said (I paraphrase) "this appears to
be a pretty good offering, and seems to be worth a look". (Well, damn!
That was "judging" it, wasn't it? Shame on me!)
Then, just before I hit send, I saw that it was a beta, instead of being
freeware as we define it. So, instead, I said, "it's all beta".
Luckily, that removed the dreaded "judging" I'd already done, in favor
of simply stating a caveat directly from the authors.
