On 11/30/2007 02:36 PM, Durk Talsma wrote:
> <off-thread-note> I wish one would get as many replies to technical inquiries
> on this list, as what I'm seeing right here </off-thread-note>
Henry Kissinger said that academic debates are particularly
vicious because "there is so little at stake".
Could we please look at this from the users' point of view?
The version number doesn't matter. The user is going to
click on whatever link says "latest version". Does anybody
really think that users are going to click or not click
based on the version number?
To show how silly this all is, here are some tongue-in-cheek
suggestions:
a) Following the example of Windows 2000, which came out in
2001, we should call it FG-2007.
b) Following the example of US carmakers, who have strange
notions of when the "model year" begins, we should call it
FG-2009.
(Note that the car makers' model year 2008 overlapped with
the US federal fiscal year 2006).
c) How 'bout we chip in and buy Curt a magic 8-ball, and
base the decision on that?
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In all seriousness, version numbers don't matter. It's nice
if they're monotone, but even that doesn't really matter.
Which do you think is bigger, a DC-8 or a DC-9?
Truly I wish we could have this much discussion of things that
actually matter to users.
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