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Linux community often tapped for beta testing

zdnetasia.com — It is common for the open source community to be called upon by vendors--including proprietary vendors--to be beta testers for Linux releases, according to an industry player.

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  • geoken, on 08/16/2008, -0/+1Although people sometimes try to paint beta testers as 'suckers' because they're doing a companies job for free, I think the relationship between proprietary software developer and free beta tester/guinea pig is pretty reciprocal.

    For example, I've been running Flex Builder Linux for 5 or so months. The latest seed (Alpha 4) was time bombed at 470+ days. In other words, beta testing has given me free use of a $250 app for ~2 years and the app itself, while being labeled alpha, has had absolutely no bugs that I was able to find.

    I've transitioned from FlashDevelop on windows to FlexBuilder on linux without paying a cent because adobe has taken the route of community beta testing.

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