Software Versions...
March 28, 2005 @ 01:41 AMSoftware version numbers are weird things. They’re completely subjective and are often used more as marketing tools than anything. As a tendency, open-source software tends to be extremely conservative (or honest?) with their numbering. After Mozilla hit v1.0, it’s steadily made it’s way through 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, etc until it’s final resting place of 1.7. If Mozilla had been a Microsoft product, it would be Mozilla 7.0 by now.
The other strange things about version numbers is the need to reset them somehow after a certain amount of time. Note: Windows: 1.x, 2.x, 3.x, 95, 97, 2000, XP. Or Mac OS: 1.x – 9.x, X.0, X.1, X.2, X.3. Photoshop: 1.x-7.x, CS, and soon, CS2.
All this is understandable… Who wants to be using Netscape 11 or Office 13 on Windows 7? On the other hand, might be more simple that way. Or if you’re into open source software, you’re already using OpenOffice 1.1 and Firefox 1.0.1 on a Linux 2.6 kernel.
.... this is a pointless post. But oh well.