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Re: Firefox Enterprise Edition

From:  Asa Dotzler <asa-AT-mozilla.com>
To:  dev-planning-AT-lists.mozilla.org
Subject:  Re: Firefox Enterprise Edition
Date:  Wed, 29 Jun 2011 15:25:22 -0700
Message-ID:  <4E0BA652.9030002@mozilla.com>
Archive-link:  Article, Thread

Matrus wrote:
> On Jun 27, 3:29 pm, Robert Kaiser<ka...@kairo.at>  wrote:
>> Having just a straight succession of numbers is easier to understand for
>> everybody, it just needs a bit of conditioning to realize that it just
>> means six weeks of new development.
>
> As long as commercial entities like Apple with their huge marketing
> budget put such a strong emphasis on version numbers in order to
> convince people to buy their new products you will have a hard time
> conditioning users to thing differently.

I disagree. If we take the version number away and update people 
silently, the users don't have to think and won't think about any of it.

- A


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