I undoubtably missed it but can you point me to something that says the early adopters and other test sites are "paying" for the Deform software. I was not aware that was the case.
3dtdman, Thank you for this post. I agree. Microsoft. Apple and countless other release "beta" software all the time. Their beta software has been tested in-house and then they release into the "real" world and provide software fixes ie updates all the time. Everyone who owns some form of a computer is familiar with getting software updates as a result of some buggy software.