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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>dogfood</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../D.html" title="D"/><link rel="previous" href="dogcow.html" title="dogcow"/><link rel="next" href="dogpile.html" title="dogpile"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">dogfood</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="dogcow.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">D</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="dogpile.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="dogfood"/><dt xmlns="" id="dogfood"><b>dogfood</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [Microsoft, Netscape] Interim software used internally for testing.
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“<span class="quote">To eat one's own dogfood</span>” (from which the slang noun derives)
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means to use the software one is developing, as part of one's everyday
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development environment (the phrase is used outside Microsoft and
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Netscape). The practice is normal in the Linux community and elsewhere, but
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the term ‘dogfood’ is seldom used as open-source betas tend to
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be quite tasty and nourishing. The idea is that developers who are using
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their own software will quickly learn what's missing or broken. Dogfood is
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typically not even of <a href="../B/beta.html"><i class="glossterm">beta</i></a> quality.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="dogcow.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../D.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="dogpile.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">dogcow </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> dogpile</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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