Dogfood

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From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  dogfood n. [Microsoft, Netscape] Interim software used internally for
     testing. "To eat one's own dogfood" (from which the slang noun derives)
     means to use the software one is developing, as part of one's everyday
     development environment (the phrase is used outside Microsoft and
     Netscape). The practice is normal in the Linux community and elsewhere,
     but the term `dogfood' is seldom used as open-source betas tend to be


     quite tasty and nourishing. The idea is that developers who are using
     their own software will quickly learn what's missing or broken. Dogfood
     is typically not even of {beta} quality.