| Sumario: | The term “perpetual beta” has assumed increasing importance in the area of software development. Traditionally, the beta phase of software development, in which a community of trusted users were invited to use the new code and report breaks and other issues to engineers, was followed by official release of the software. However, beta versions are increasingly being released to a wider community of general users, and the software is being kept in its beta version, if not for ever, then at least for a prolonged period of time. Perhaps in the future, people may come to understand that perfection is an iterative process.
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