Quotes of the week

I still recall rather vividly an argument some years back over the Evolution mail client. A user on the mailing lists -- and hence almost by definition a more technical user than the average lay computer user -- was throwing such an immense stink over how "stupid" it was for client to transition from x.9 to x.10 because _obviously_ everybody knows that x.10 is equivalent to x.1 and that only incredibly massive morons could ever possibly think that x.10 comes after x.9.

Of course this is one of several reasons why larger successful products use marketing numbers and versions rather than internal ABI versions. The three-component non-decimal numbers make a lot of sense for ABIs. Big round non-fractional non-denominated non-structured version numbers make sense for marketing and releases of large collections of components (such as an OS).