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Linux distributions suffer much the same affliction as commercial software in general. Notice that the non-commercial Debian distribution is currently at 3.1, while the last release of Red Hat Linux was 9.0 . Slackware skipped 3 versions to go from 4.x to 7.0 to match what the commercial distros were doing.

My point remains that the only effect of this practice is to completely eliminate the significance of a major release (if everything is a major release, then...).
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Bogus reporting... sigh...  No_Ax_to_Grind | 08/12/05
WRONG!  vdraken | 08/12/05
Where you been? Geez...  quietLee | 08/12/05
Even mo' for the homie  quietLee | 08/12/05
Ummm..  vdraken | 08/12/05
Buy yourself a clue. PLEASE  No_Ax_to_Grind | 08/12/05
OK, for those who didn't understand No_Axe . . .  CobraA1 | 08/12/05
OpenOffice is more than a way for the community to be involved.  DonnieBoy | 08/12/05
So your a big NotePad user huh?  No_Ax_to_Grind | 08/13/05
When you have a hammer, everything starts looking like a nail, eh?  CobraA1 | 08/14/05
There is no fork, they are both based on the same code base.  DonnieBoy | 08/12/05
Version inflation  John L. Ries | 08/12/05
Well, yes, and if Linux were a comercial product, we would be on version 12  DonnieBoy | 08/12/05
Interestingly enough...  John L. Ries | 08/12/05
Maybe not...  No_Ax_to_Grind | 08/13/05
Except...  John L. Ries | 08/13/05
Just try to find...  Fred Fredrickson | 08/14/05
Huh? I have copies of them.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 08/14/05
Word, not M$ Office  kls@... | 08/18/05
Re: Version inflation  CobraA1 | 08/15/05
Re: Version inflation  John L. Ries | 08/15/05
I really wonder what will be in it...  No_Ax_to_Grind | 08/13/05
perhaps  CobraA1 | 08/13/05
XML script?  Fred Fredrickson | 08/14/05
No, script to import and export XML  No_Ax_to_Grind | 08/14/05

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