oh come onOriginally Posted by BurnHavoc
you know, we are talking about google here..I'm betting they don't have a big enough budget for hardcore internal testing/testers, so using the public works for both getting the word out and clogging holes.
GOOGLE!!!!!!!
ever heard of the 1,7Billion$ purchase of youtube for example?
they have probably hundreds of billion of dollars... in cash on hand because of their shares etc.
even FF get their money from google.
and as I said it's irresponsible to use the masses for finding security holes... it's no fun if you end up loosing all your data (for work for example) and have to install the whole system again.
even DAoC had a closed beta, the open beta is only for testing server preformance and finding the smallest issues which are left after a long-long closed beta time.You know it's early beta for the first while, if you don't like that concept come back in a few months and see if progress has been made. it's like people complaining when testing an MMO in beta and saying it's shite. I thought that of DAoC at first glance, but after release I ended up playing it for 3 years.