First we agree completly with your answer about the effort of Scriptlogic for
KiXtart. The first 'shit' of alpha versions were taken only by you.
The public releases are only beta, release candidates and final releases.
We think Scriptlogic does many more for the KiXtart community than we known.

Secondly we appreciate that people speak their mind. On one hand everybody is
using his own way of writting, on the other hand everybody has his own way of
reading and interpretating information.
We prefer the clear way and we doesn't have any problem with the way of express
yourself. People should never forget the goal of it.

Third your re-evaluation would be a bad idea, but everybody should respect the
site license agreements (see our previous reaction for more about this).
Brian you are playing it clean by putting this possibility to the main topic.

Fourth we should handle all members in the same way with no regard to commercial
organizations. Everybody can make a note to too much commercial activities of
members without a real contribution.
F.e. a lot of members are liking and sometimes only using the online kixtart
help file of Scriptlogic. We like their Development Report page very much.

Fifth Jens we subscribe completly Shawns second reaction. Keep on
going. We doesn't see it as something personal discussion from Brian.

At least we are working all together for the same goal: let KiXtart be the one.
and
by-the-way Brian can you more explain "what are the tasks for beta testers"?
Interest, who knows.
greetings.

btw: when you consider "this post" doesn't imply this conclusion.
Only bstyles' remark about "Combine these routines with the UDF capabilities of KIX2001
and what do you get?" (related to DateMath & DateSerial) draws our attention to the new
capabilities of UDFs.
Such suggestions are always welcome to this board.
A clear look at those UDFs shows us that we should:
- use not only the name of author but also the name of publisher
- in some situations the author of UDF wasn't the creator of algoritm. in some cases the
author only translate an algorithm to a KiXtart script.
On one hand everybody is using his own way of writting, on the other hand everybody has
his own way of reading and interpretating information.

btw: he can do with his linux what he wants isn't completly true. he may only
sold it for cost price.

btw: our previous reaction was already prepared on first reactions. this reaction is
some additional stuff to it.