-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Thomas Hertweck wrote:
jdd wrote: ... Back to Linux: I think that the version numbers of SuSE distributions were not always driven by "technical" aspects but by marketing instead (at least partly). And, maybe, they still are. When RedHat releases an Enterprise server 10, Novell needs also something with a version number 10 at the end of the day. And so on.
Exactly.
In summary: the whole topic about version numbering is more complicated than one might think as it has of course some commercial side-effect. This list is mainly looking at this topic from a "technical" point of view. But in order to come up with a solution that suits everyone (if it's going to be changed at all), one needs to include the marketing guys in this discussion...
100% ACK.
It's totally useless to discuss/drive that here, IMO it's outside of our
scope of action and influence.
That's something the Novell marketing dept decides, and I don't see them
discussing this with us.
Pointless, let's discuss things we can actually have influence on or do
ourselves.
cheers
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