Badger Arms said:
The implication by saying "vaporware" or other derisive terms like that is that they don't ever intend to release it or we will never see it.
That is one interpretation. I like the Wiki explanation of the term fairly well:
"Vaporware is a term used to describe a product, usually software, that has been announced by a developer during or before its development and, therefore, may never actually be released. The term is usually applied to products which fail to emerge after having well-exceeded the period of development time that was initially claimed or would normally be expected for the development cycle of a similar product. The term implies unwarranted optimism, an as yet unannounced abandonment of a project, or sometimes even deception; that is, it may imply that the announcer knows that product development is in too early a stage to support responsible statements about its completion date, feature set, or even feasibility."
So let's go down the list:
1. Product announced by developer early in its development? Check.
2. Product fails to emerge several years after the development time that was initially claimed? Check.
3. Unwarranted optimism about product development? Check.
I believe expecting Remington to keep to Bushmaster's inflated BS schedule is disingenuous.
There is nothing "inflated" about Bushmaster's schedule or any reason why it was a ridiculous target. Bushmaster never claimed it was unable to produce the rifle for its 1Q target date. The issue was that Bushmaster didn't want to set up the tooling and then have to change the tooling to satisfy an Army requirement. This meant that Bushmaster had to wait for the Army in order to set up the tooling (and is waiting still along with Remington and anybody else who is interested).
If you're going to complain about the fact it's not been released yet
I'm not complaining about the fact it hasn't been released yet. In fact, if you'll read my previous posts, you'll note I encouraged all the companies involved to not release the rifle until they were ready to do so; because I certainly will complain about a rifle that is released in beta-condition.
All I was doing, my sensitive friend, is pointing out that characterizing the rifle as vaporware was not as ridiculous or as unfounded as you seemed to think it was. In fact, the rifle meets at least several of the criteria used to define vaporware.
