On 05/26/2014 12:53 AM, Mark Wieder wrote:
That's what I thought. This urban legend has been batted around lately.
Um, what is it you thought? I didn't say "I once heard somebody say their friend's uncle told them about a neighbor..." urban legend style. It was my own (recent) observation. I noticed a release announcement on one list but not the other. It's not impossible that I missed it, but I did look for it at the time. If I missed it, I will not have been the only one who has overlooked an announcement for one reason or another.
In any event, depending on these lists to prevent people from downloading publicly available software "until it's time" is wildly irresponsible and scolding or mocking someone for downloading such software is ridiculous. People regularly overlook or miss announcements and others might not be downloading immediately from the announcements but prefer to go to the download directory at some other convenient time. I'm pretty sure there is also hope that curious people are finding and downloading LiveCode with the expectation that they'll join these lists sometime after rather than vice versa. While it's possible to say many of us should know better, there are groups of people who can't and others for whom it may not be convenient.
The system is not in any way reliable, nor particularly defensible given there are any number of reasons why someone may encounter one of these not-ready-for-release releases.
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