HA! Most stuff is beta at best! Software that is shipping with big $$ price tags is beta is the developers dreams (the alpha version was the marketing depts final product while upper management is _still_ trying to figure out why it needs to actually ship with a working support team behind it).<br>
<br>If anything ever gets actually completed, it's a freaking miracle.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 10:52 PM, Matthew <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:simontek@gmail.com" target="_blank">simontek@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Its kind of interesting. Its impossible this day in age to have something done. If everything is finished, you have to change something to make people happy. Keeping it Beta, makes it so it doesn't have to supported. Doesn't surprise me that its still beta.<div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 10:25 PM, Jim Kinney <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com" target="_blank">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<p>Not surprising. However, I setup a friend a few years back with a netbook with fedora and skype. It's benn upgraded to f16 and the latest skype for Linux. It all works. Even the video. </p><div><div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On May 4, 2012 9:18 PM, "Lawrence Hamblin" <<a href="mailto:infinity.d2@gmail.com" target="_blank">infinity.d2@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I think I'll just rain on your parade with a bit of irony: the Linux version of Skype is still stuck, after over two years, on version 2.2 beta.<br><br>Thanks Microsoft.<br><br>Lawrence<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 4:54 PM, Jim Kinney <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com" target="_blank">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Having been in this since kernel v.0.95 and seen the train wreck of Microsoft trying to hold off the inevitable, for them to cave this quickly and USE a Linux cluster as a core component is just a funny thing to me.<br><br>
And, yes, it is _QUITE_ a compliment!<div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 4:22 PM, Matthew <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:simontek@gmail.com" target="_blank">simontek@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Why? They realized linux was more efficient for their needs. I see it<br>
as a compliment.<br>
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> <a href="http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/05/skype-replaces-p2p-supernodes-with-linux-boxes-hosted-by-microsoft.ars" target="_blank">http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/05/skype-replaces-p2p-supernodes-with-linux-boxes-hosted-by-microsoft.ars</a><br>
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