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The Amazing World of Software Version Numbers

Posted by timothy on from the remember-the-slackware-incident dept.

Harry writes "In theory, software version numbers should be incredibly mundane. In reality, companies have long twisted them for marketing purposes, avoided ones they didn't like, and even replaced them with things other than numbers. I've prepared a tribute to them with some facts and ruminations, but there's a lot I don't know, and I'd appreciate help on the historical side of things. (Anyone know when the standard decimal point-based system came into use?)"

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  1. Re:What now? by cusco · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Wow. This is the longest that I have EVER seen a /. discussion actually stay on topic. Ever. And I was reading for a couple of years before I ever created the first account (which I lost), and then another year or two before I created this one. I guess the trick is to make the subject unutterably boring.

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