Re: Did GNOME go 1.0 too early?

[Preben Randhol <randhol pvv org>]

Andy Kahn <kahn@zk3.dec.com> writes:

| On Thu, Mar 04, 1999 at 04:38:12AM +0100, Nils Jeppe wrote:
| > Because that way they could release it on Linux World Expo? Ride on the
| > wave of media attention that's gonna get them?
| 
| i second this opinion and think riding the hype was the primary
| goal of this release.

I don't know anything about gnome, but abiword from abisource
<http://www.abisource.com/> jumped from 0.3.3 to 0.5.0 in a very short
time (the reason they skipped 0.4 is because this would indicate a
stable version) before the Expo.

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Prbn