After remaining in closed alpha for six months and over 150,000 signups, BOXEE is gradually moving towards the beta stage by opening up alpha on Mac and Ubuntu on January 8th. According to the Boxee blog:
we get asked frequently about why we keep it closed, especially given the fact that it is open-source. the answer is that the product is still very much alpha, and we wanted to scale our servers gradually. but the demand is overwhelming and we don’t want to have users wait for months for their invites, so we decided to open the Jan 8th release of Mac and Ubuntu to everyone.
