It may make some sense from the OSS perspective, where people are (sometimes) honest and actually admit that their product is not even close to 1.0.
For a business, I am not sure you would fine so "altruistic" managements, kind of "buy our product, it's our first ever attempt, but it's very good and we have plans to make it better".
I think my suggestion would be to remove it totally at this stage, (as others have suggested), or make it something 1.02 (as others have also suggested, but maybe not so good)...
As many posters have already said if you name it 7.3 and it's full of bugs, people will be quite upset, as they would normally expect a mature product...
The other thing of course is that if you lie, at least try not to lie that much! Maybe call it 2.0 as a compromise?
"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...
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For a business, I am not sure you would fine so "altruistic" managements, kind of "buy our product, it's our first ever attempt, but it's very good and we have plans to make it better".
I think my suggestion would be to remove it totally at this stage, (as others have suggested), or make it something 1.02 (as others have also suggested, but maybe not so good)...
As many posters have already said if you name it 7.3 and it's full of bugs, people will be quite upset, as they would normally expect a mature product...
The other thing of course is that if you lie, at least try not to lie that much! Maybe call it 2.0 as a compromise?
"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...