On Mon, 24 Aug 2009 20:55:37 -0700, Darren New wrote:

> When a project, no matter how well known, is still at 0.xxx after six
> years, it's probably because it really does actually still suck to the
> point where you don't want to try to use it in a professional setting.

I've not found that to be the case consistently.  The newsreader I use, 
for example, is at version 0.133 currently, and it generally does a very 
good job.

Version numbers in OSS, like commercial software, are nothing more than 
marketing tools.

Jim

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