CrossOver Linux Private Beta Tester
Today is a very hectic day for the Technical Support Department where I also belong. Our current network cabling infrastructure is already old and we have to admit, it seldom enjoy a thorough and healthy checkup from the cabling/network team. When it was being checked up today, we were surprised to find out that rats have chewed up the UTPs almost clean through. Even the power cords were not spared. Our mail and web server suffered some problems perhaps due indirectly to short-circuited links which we are also currently investigating.
However, this post is not about the issues we are encountering. This post is about a single email that I received in the wee hours of the morning today. The email I’m talking about is a personal email from CodeWeavers CEO Jeremy White. It says, and I quote:
From: Jeremy White
To: hardwyrd
Date: Jan 9, 2007 1:35 AM
Subject: Thanks for all your help in testing CrossOver Linux
mailed-by: www1.codeweavers.comHi,
I am writing to you because you submitted one or more problem
reports to us throughout our long beta test cycle for CrossOver Linux.I am happy to announce that we will be officially shipping
a first production version of CrossOver tomorrow morning.Further, we were able only to improve and fine tune CrossOver
because of all your help in testing. So thank you!
We appreciate it greatly. Not only that, but your help has
helped us to improve Wine, so the entire open source Wine community
thanks you as well!Now, our first agenda right after launch is to get hard to work
on our next version; we still have a lot of problems and issues
we intend to fix as quickly as we can.However, we will be shifting away from a public beta forum,
and shifting instead to a private, invitation only beta process.Because you were helpful to us, you are part of
that elite 'invitation only' crowd, and your account record
with us has been flagged with access to the 'private' beta center.This will mean you will get an occassional email (perhaps
6-10 times a year) informing you that new test releases
are available.If you do *not* want to be involved in future betas, please
write us back at info.at.codeweavers.com, and we will take you off
right away.Please note that we hate spam, and we will never knowingly use
this list to spam you in any way; all we will do is send you
an email when a new version of CrossOver is available for testing.At any rate, thank you once again for all of your help with CrossOver;
we greatly appreciate it.Cheers,
Jeremy
I am very grateful to Jeremy White and the team at CodeWeavers for making me one of the Private Beta Testers for upcoming releases of CrossOver Linux which I believe is one hell of a product that nobody can do without.
Of course, I’ll be putting here whatever I’ll encounter during my tests.
More power CodeWeavers and thanks!
Visit them at http://www.codeweavers.com
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