Thank goodness Rajlich is actually a nice guy.

I recently expressed exactly this sentiment to another software development person in an unrelated genre who had issued much fewer and much more frustrating updates.

I stated it close to the way that you stated it, as polite and as understanding as possible and trying to place myself in their shoes. I asked a simple question about the development process that was along the lines of whether or not the project was actively being worked on or if the company had issued other priorities or divided up developer time between other projects.

Well, the answer I got was that I was rude for asking, that they (this developer and the team he/she oversaw) had been working 10-15 hours a day 5-7 days a week with a team of 4 or 5 and how dare I imply otherwise. This person indicated I was ungrateful, disrespectful, and ignorant of standard practices of software development (which ironically I was trying to alleviate by asking questions).

Still periods of 6 months to a year have passed without significant updates, even without some changes that were very simple, highly desired, and certainly could not take more than a week (severely liberal estimate) to implement.

Luckily there is every indication that Vas is a good person and would not react this way at all. Still I've often encountered a lot of friction with developers so I must conclude that it is simply a mysterious world I will never understand unless I become a part of it myself.

Maybe they could skip over mentioning Windows Vista :-)

Anyways I agree about the Rybka website. Maybe a story could be put on the front page that says something like, "Rybka still at the top of the heap with Rybka 4".