"I had assumed that the version number for this product would be 1.0 (***at most****)." (* emphasis mine*)
So, your view is that the professional software that your company wants to sell should have something like "v0.2.1" in its name? And you would seriously expect people to buy this?
Sorry, I just had to bring this up, maybe v6 is an exaggeration, but to say "I was expecting this to be 1.0 at most" is kind of not so reassuring either...
My point was to accomodate the OSS perspective - that many very stable products (Inkscape) that are currently hovering at sub-1.0 versions...
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MS knows many people won't adopt a new OS until a a service pack is released that they put "SP1" onto Windows Server 2008 right out of the box.
Version number do matter.
But Microsoft itself created that distrust in the first place.
"I had assumed that the version number for this product would be 1.0 (***at most****)." (* emphasis mine*) So, your view is that the professional software that your company wants to sell should have something like "v0.2.1" in its name? And you would seriously expect people to buy this? Sorry, I just had to bring this up, maybe v6 is an exaggeration, but to say "I was expecting this to be 1.0 at most" is kind of not so reassuring either...
My point was to accomodate the OSS perspective - that many very stable products (Inkscape) that are currently hovering at sub-1.0 versions...