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Matt Tucker wrote:
-- "David A. Cobb" <superbiskit(a)home.com> spake thusly:
part of the received "common wisdom" is that even numbered
releases
are unlucky -- at least they are in commercial software.
In light of this wisdom, perhaps the decision by several major open
source projects to
make odd versions development and even ones releases
was a poor one. :-)
Hey, 's OK with me either way. Maybe the leading lights in all these
Open projects
consciously decided to reverse the "commercial" world. Let's see:
Windows 3.0 (Zero
being even), IBM anything .0, DEC (remember them) anything.0. It
wasn't "beta," but
not a few site managers knew that installing it wasn't worth the
grief until the rest of the
user base had kicked the tires. One huge difference, of course, is
that we are ALL
knowingly being beta testers: that's the beauty of open-source.
- --
David A. Cobb, Software Engineer, Public Access Advocate. Public Key
at:
<
http://pgpkeys.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=superbiskit>
"Don't buy or use crappy software"
"By the grace of God I am a Christian man,
by my actions a great sinner" -- The Way of a Pilgrim [R. M. French,
tr.]
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