Re: Topic: Versioning scheme and 1.0


Subject: Re: Topic: Versioning scheme and 1.0
rms@greymalkin.yi.org
Date: Thu May 03 2001 - 17:00:42 CDT


On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 11:35:17AM -0700, WJCarpenter wrote:
> People seem to have recovered nicely from when MS changed their
> numbering scheme from "6" to "2000", and earlier when their
> competitors jumped from "2" to "6" for brochure parity. Most of the
> ritual suicides have tapered off. :-)

They didn't jump from 2 to 6.
MS Word 4.x and 5.x lived happily in the Mac universe. I believe version 3 as well, but I can't tell for sure.

Hugs, rms




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