Comments on: Preview Firefox 3 Beta 1 http://www.ghacks.net/2007/11/08/preview-firefox-3-beta-1/ A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:08:06 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Ian http://www.ghacks.net/2007/11/08/preview-firefox-3-beta-1/#comment-195899 Ian Sun, 11 Nov 2007 13:12:28 +0000 http://www.ghacks.net/2007/11/08/preview-firefox-3-beta-1/#comment-195899 Well, why would it be a good idea to change the whole uploading each version approach. Thats half the point of being an open source project. If it isn't free to download at each stage, whos going to be writing code for it, apart from the few in house staff. Its not that they don't want people downloading it. They encourage that for testing purposes, its just that they don't want people downloading it now, because theres been hype built up, just to have to redownload it at some other point for the actual beta release. (and then again when it is *actually* a release version). Well, why would it be a good idea to change the whole uploading each version approach. Thats half the point of being an open source project. If it isn’t free to download at each stage, whos going to be writing code for it, apart from the few in house staff.

Its not that they don’t want people downloading it. They encourage that for testing purposes, its just that they don’t want people downloading it now, because theres been hype built up, just to have to redownload it at some other point for the actual beta release. (and then again when it is *actually* a release version).

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