[opensuse] Conspiracy theory [not MS...]

12 Nov 2006

      Just about when 10.1 was released a thought came to me that I wanted to 
share: Why was 10.1 delayed? Not because the package management system 
was not working ('just another bug'), but more importantly, that the 
next release (+6 months from then) would fall onto Christmas [expl. see 
below].

Previously - i.e. if the regular schedule was kept
  *                 2005-10-06  10.0 Final (wiki)
  *  +6.5 months    2006-03-25  10.1 Final (math)
  *  +6   months    2006-10-xx  10.2 Final (math)

Note that OpenBSD would have been released right after it, 2006-11-01.

Currently - how it really turned out:
  *                 2006-05-11  10.1 Final
  *  +6   months    2006-12-07  10.2 Final (math)

Now, vendors have some time to preinstall it onto machines and have them 
sold by Christmas with a _new shiny_ 10.2 rather than a 2.5 month old 
version. Beats both OpenBSD 4 (1.5 months old) and Vista (not to be 
released until after xmas).
    Intersting marketing idea. Conspiracy Ferpecto! :-)

	-`J'
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Jan Engelhardt

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