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Originally Posted by ndi View Post
All releases have disclaimers. A release from Nokia is a release from Nokia and I expect the darned thing to work. If a company releases a lemon with a note that says "Warning: may be a lemon" the all they have to do is tag all releases and to hell with it.

There's a reason most don't install it, or custom kernels, or whatnot. I NEED the device day to day.

Finally, the test base for leaked PR is minimal. Hundreds at most. Final PR wil run on a thousand more machines. This is akin to saying a war is safe because 200 made it back. You have too small of a sample, and sample bias because people who risk it have some knowledge, some adventure and some understanding of risk involved.

A Public Release is, as the name suggests, public.
Companies release beta software all the time, it's your choice to install it or not. There are even beta releases of OS's, again your choice to install it.

How many people do you think Nokia has testing PR1.2? Is their sample size too small? I bet it's less than a thousand . Most of those testers are pretty close to the project and aren't "normal" users. By your logic, Nokia would never release PR1.2 due to sample size / type of tester.

I'll bet the installed base for the leaked 1.2 would double the sample pool, and with people that are likely to push the limits, exposing more bugs, if handled properly.
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