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Beta == unfinished, may have bugs.


No, "beta" means "finished, but may have non-show-stopper bugs".

If it's not finished it's alpha.

Beta is pretty much just used as "buyer beware" nowadays, like a disclaimer "we take no responsibility for our bugs".


Offtopic for sure, but the way most places I've worked have used the terms is: "alpha" means that the developers think it's done. "beta" means QA thinks it's done. "release" means that actual user testing revealed no showstoppers.




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