CompuServe Messages

Bill, That's true…just paying the fee doesn't make a person competent either. However, I'd bet if you grabbed 50 names at random from the developer's list, 50 from our membership base, and 50 from Amiga owners in general…you'd find the average level of competence to also be in about the same order (developers, folks here, owner in general). Some system must be used. There's over a million Amiga owners out there. Presuming only 1% decided to respond to a plea for beta testers, that'd be 10,000 users to "sift" thru trying to find those that would be competent enought to really give the software a workout. Remember…this is the Operating System…this isn't just some application program. Unless you're writing programs, you can't very well test many of the functions. All "Joe Average User" could do is report that Program X crashes under 1.4 when selecting menu item Y…whereas it worked under 1.3. Joe Average Developer could not only state that…be they could also send in a sample piece of code. Joe Average Developer would also kow if they pulled a trick that used to work on 1.3, but now doesn't on 1.4 and thus…the "fault" is theirs…not the new OS. Thus, they'd know they had to change their code and not make an erroneous bug report. Also…there is nothing stopping Joe Average User from sending in bug reports when they come across them. It's not at all uncommon for me to see reports of problems…or suggestions for changes on the various networks I "visit". Don