Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!samsung!spool.mu.edu!news.cs.indiana.edu!msi.umn.edu!cs.umn.edu!ux.acs!vx.acs.umn.edu!dhoyt
From: dhoyt@vx.acs.umn.edu (DAVID HOYT)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Beta and E.T.O. (Apple crispies)
Message-ID: <3329@ux.acs.umn.edu>
Date: 22 Feb 91 16:02:56 GMT
References: <49117@apple.Apple.COM> <1991Feb13.131117.1@gsbacd.uchicago.edu> <49212@apple.Apple.COM> <1991Feb19.112326.7404@chinet.chi.il.us>
Sender: news@ux.acs.umn.edu
Reply-To: dhoyt@vx.acs.umn.edu
Organization: University of Minnesota, Academic Computing Services
Lines: 13
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.3-4

In article <1991Feb19.112326.7404@chinet.chi.il.us>, laird@chinet.chi.il.us (Laird J. Heal) writes...
>For $300/yr, I highly recommend that you put finals on E.T.O.  How can we
>justify such a cost for unfinished software, just because there is room
>on the media?  How can we justify the time to wade through and discover
>what is worth our time to use?

  Ahhem.  Both the finals and the betas are shipped with ETO.  Risk takers
will want to use the new features before they are stable, software
developers will be able to see the directions of future products and
developers for life support systems can stay with the most conservitive
product.  Everybody wins.

david | dhoyt@vx.acs.umn.edu | dhoyt@umnacvx.bitnet