The place of ADM among outliners and pims

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Posted by srdiamond15
2006-02-10 00:59:31

Kenneth,

What’s the “latest version.” I have the latest public version, and it includes nothing that comes even close. If you mean a private beta, available to those who frequent a private site owned by a particular tester who annoying personality is allowed to determine site practices (because he owns the discussion group), then maybe. Who can say?

ADM plays a game that think can truly be called a scam, to apply a term used here but I think more appropriately. Within a group of testers, daring features are introduced, with such bugs as to make the product unusable. But if someone complains about the product’s instability, the developer says something like, ‘What do you expect. It’s a beta.” But if the wider public, with access to what passes for the last stable version, questions whether the features are really all that avant guarde, they get the response you just gave, like, ‘“The latest version” is way beyond that.

Fewer people are fooled these days by such deceit (and self-deception) as practiced by ADM’s developers.

Stephen R. Diamond

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