-----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 - -- -o) Pascal Bleser http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/ /\\ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _\_v The more things change, the more they stay insane. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEQ3rRr3NMWliFcXcRApKDAKCVz4h1rXxWqRIvHJFcIxl8qefZoACfRTkt YqINYSWS+RG0R5S5Tvy+wWE= =cZNn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
