The Amazing World of Version Numbers
Capital of Nasty, an Electronic Magazine - ISSN 1482-0471
Thursday, July 23, 2009 at 07:49 (2413/10)
In theory, software version numbers should be about as scintillating as as serial numbers, house numbers, channel numbers, or Vehicle Identification Numbers. You don’t much more mundane than the practice of keeping track of a software package’s major and minor editions by assigning decimal numbers to them.
Except... version numbers long ago stopped being version numbers.
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