On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 1:57 PM, Jürgen Schmidt <jogischm...@gmail.com>wrote:
> interesting read, it contains still some misleading info and missed to > say where the sidebar feature in LO comes from but anyway. > Interesting how forks jump the version number to a higher number than the parent projects to mislead unsuspecting visitors that the fork is somewhat newer and better than the parent project. I mean, if a project a is at v 6.0 and then you say project b is a fork of project a and project b is at version 6.1, many would concluse that the one with v6.1 is newer and better. I think this is deliberate. The MySQL fork MariaDB and its version jump to 10.x vs MySQL 5.x comes to mind, and before that, Microsoft started the trend of version number jumping when Word battled Wordperfect, and WP was at version 5.x, MS WinWord jumped from version 2.0 to 6.0, so suddenly the revies were about the battle of MS Word 6.0 vs Wordperfect 5.x. Get the idea? The one with the lower version number gets the "less developed" subliminal message. I think Apache OpenOffice should thus jump to version 8.0 for the next release, and when LO releases ita 8.1 AOO releases version 10. And so on until this madness and dirty trick ends. ;) FC -- During times of Universal Deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act Durante épocas de Engaño Universal, decir la verdad se convierte en un Acto Revolucionario - George Orwell
