On Thursday 02 November 2000 10:31, you wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Nov 2000, Jason Straight wrote:
> > On Thursday 02 November 2000 08:12, you wrote:
> > > James Sutherland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > >
> > >
> > > [...]
> > >
> > > > confusion. Your implication that neither of them is the real 7.2
> > > > suggests you're working for SuSE :-)
> > >
> > > Sorry, I give up.
> >
> > Right, accusing and name-calling isn't going to help anyone here, just
> > piss everyone off. The point has been made already. Mandrake knows the
> > confusion that having 2 versions released under the same version can
> > cause and will hopefully find a way to educate consumers before it
> > happens again.
>
> That's the wrong approach. It isn't the consumer who needs educating, it's
> whoever puts the version numbers on boxes.
>
That's kind of what I meant - we need to be told what's going on by
announcments and proper labeling.
> > This could have all been solved by some note or version difference
> > visible on the package at the stores. It may be a problem of having
> > 7.20 at the store while 7.21 is on download but it would be a lot
> > easier to just put "Can be updated, online, to newest versions with
> > included Mandrake Update utility!" than dealing with all the
> > confusion.
>
> Which is precisely what I and others suggested - only to be vetoed with
> "but the marketdrones wouldn't like it". The argument amounted to "Walmart
> want to have a box with the latest version number on, even if the contents
> aren't what the label says."
>
> James.
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