Destiny and future have more imagination than us, I prefer to not worry.
Strangely, this make me remember about P.K Dick books
Jacques
From: "David E Jones" <[email protected]>
This was part of my reason for a last minute coup to have it be
"09.04" instead of just "9.04".
As for the year 2100... chances are this versioning approach will be
out of fashion by then. OFBiz will certainly still be around, but
we've already changed version numbering once in 8 years, so chances
are in the next 91 years either we or our successors will decide to
change it.
If we're lucky there will be a new world government between now and
then, and chances are such a government would think its establishment
SO important that it decides to start with year/month/day zero as the
day of its founding. In that case it's a moot point, and/or would be a
lower priority given all of the new government regulations to suddenly
comply with.
Oh well, just as with the themes deprecation issue my real feeling is
that I've given up on predicting the future (I keep getting it wrong
damn it!), so I'm fine with waiting to see what happens... ;)
As a case in point: much to the chagrin of my survivalist friends
nothing really happened with the 1999/2000 turnover. Unfortunately
software just isn't that important, and fortunately software may be
complicated but is really pretty malleable. Anyway, I guess personally
I'm more concerned that in the USA public and private debt plus
floating bank liabilities that haven't landed yet are approaching 50%
of the gross value of the entire country (and I guess the USA is not
alone in this either).
Anyway, that's why I say that OFBiz will still be around in 91 years
(so this is a good point!). Even if there is hyperinflation or other
catastrophes something that has no financial liabilities will survive
whereas certain other things may not. Of course, there is always legal
liabilities but the project can survive somewhere in the world unless
there is a one world government that outlaws non-commercial
software... ;)
Well, enough of that... I'm back to enjoying my right-wing, ultra-
conservative, compound proponing, morbidly delightful but hopelessly
paranoid, TEOTWAWKI literature. Lucky for all of us there are
evidently some people who CAN see the future, at least hopefully
better than I can... or hopefully not as the case may be.
Too much fun...
-David
On May 8, 2009, at 10:32 AM, Ean Schuessler wrote:
Is it just me or is this new revision system going to give us the
same kinds of trouble that '89 style dates did in the late 1900s? I
guess people will put up with revision numbers like 125.03 but they
may get tired of saying 125 all the time and just say 25. Will that
cause confusion between versions from the current century and
version from the previous one?
Just figured we should be proactive.
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Ean Schuessler, CTO Brainfood.com
[email protected] - http://www.brainfood.com - 214-720-0700 x 315
