Going about beta-testing a program... advice?

[Madison Kelly]

Anton Markov wrote:
> Actually, MySQL is licenced under a commercial license _and_ GPL, which
> does allow free commercial use. Your license does not. That is
> definetely a stopper if you are trying to get community involvement, but
> at least your boss gets to make some money, so it's not necessairely a
> bad thing.
> 
> As far as the market niche goes, I definetely see the need for a
> new-generation user-friendly backup program. Something that is designed
> for USB HDs and CD/DVD-R media, not tape. The only GPL alternative I
> know is DAR (and KDar), but they still lack the user-friendly element.
> (I know about Mondo, but it was too inflexible so it didn't worked as I
> wanted).

Really? I didn't think that was possible. I will need to look into how 
MySQL does that and maybe I can get my boss to agree to that same 
license for our program. I just posted a more detail (kind of 
markety-ish) list of what the program can do so far. If you are curious 
that might help show what niche it might fit into a little better. My 
biggest aim through out was to make it as easy to use (once installed) 
as possible. I hope I did well, I guess time will tell.

It doesn't support CD/DVD-R (as I mentioned in the other reply) though 
it is something I have already started to plan for. It's simply hasn't 
reached a high enough point on the priority list. If you and others ask 
for it though I will give it a higher priority and get it working.

Thanks for the reply!

Madison
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