Re: NetSurf 1.0 released

John Cartmell <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In article <4ee7686c19nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
David <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The plain fact is that just short of two years ago, I purchased a Mac
Mini on the strength of claims on these newsgroups that VRPC had been
seen working on a Mac. Now, nearly two years later, a version is
released but it is only a beta version; further, it has generated yet
another thread of moaning about the difficulties of registration. It
doesn't inspire any confidence.

Such moaning is bad for the market.

The market is making things bad for itself if it doesn't fulfil promises
made.

That's why you were bounced on when readers thought you were moaning
about something unreasonably. Much unreasonable complaining goes on and
it's often better to ignore it as trying to correct the half-truths and
lies simply gets them repeated.

So, as you are responding to and quoting David's post above, was it a lie
that VRPC had been seen working on a Mac?

If David had seen it reported by someone in the know that VRPC would soon
be available on a Mac - I must admit I saw it too, but can't remember who
said it - then it is perfectly reasonable for him to buy one in
preparation for the release. David has expressed disappointment that the
release software is beta and that he doesn't want to be involved in
testing. Fair enough. The man in the street doesn't usually want to be a
beta tester on any platform - that's usually left to the geeks.

David's complaint about NetSurf was perhaps a bit blunt, but it did turn
out to be a clash between NS an oft-used patch. His complaint was not
about a beta release - which should no doubt be made to a test list - but
about the release version, which he was surprised had a problem on his
system.

That's the problem of usenet: you end up with a mix of arguments and
uncorrected items.

Which is why the answers are best left to those who /really/ know and not
those who have no knowledge, but are trying to give the impression that
they do.

Ray D
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