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dogfood
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2014-04-26 11:54:15 -04:00
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n. [Microsoft, Netscape] Interim software used internally for testing. To
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eat one's own dogfood (from which the slang noun derives) means to use the
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software one is developing, as part of one's everyday development
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environment (the phrase is used outside Microsoft and Netscape). The
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practice is normal in the Linux community and elsewhere, but the term
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dogfood is seldom used as open-source betas tend to be quite tasty and
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nourishing. The idea is that developers who are using their own software
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will quickly learn what's missing or broken. Dogfood is typically not even
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of beta quality.
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