Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (198 mails)

["Dominique Leuenberger" <Dominique.Leuenberger@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>> Reply on 05-12-2006 15:25:20 <<<

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> The Tuesday 2006-12-05 at 14:03 +0100, houghi wrote:
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> > So a customer buying "HoughiSoftware 2004" now, is he being ripped
of
> or
> > not? I will tell you what the latest version of this hypotetical
> package
> > is AFTER you answer yes or no. ;-)
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> 
> That's a trick question :-P
> 
> SuSE pops two versions per year, we don't know about your program
;-)
> 
> At least, if I were about to buy a software labeled "2004" I would
try
> to 
> get more info before opening my purse.
> 

That must be why nobody ever thinks at the moment when buying Microsoft
Windows 2003 Server. It has such a recent numbering yea rin it's name.

And what shall happen with a release just by the end of the year 2006
(like 10.2): is it already named 2007 or still 2006? And if 2007: when
exactly would be the limit to name it 2007 or not? Probably by asking
around this question, you get everything back to Janaury 2006 for the
2007 release.

Sorry, but I don't like these 200x numbers at all! MS Started them with
win95 (which, btw, was released in August), and it continued.. and guess
what: for some reasons, they gave up on it with WinXP and vista... we
should profit from their marketing knowledge and not start putting year
numbers as version numbers.

Dominique
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