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Re: X11 for Mac OS X v1.0 to ship in Panther

Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 14:53:29 +0200
From: Oliver Kurlvink <email@hidden>
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Oliver Kurlvink wrote:

Regarding the version numbering, apple all the time was not able to use correct versioning for osx. apple talks about "Mac OS X 10.2", which is wrong, because I'm not using the tenth version of mac os x, but the third one. Panther should be named as "Mac OS X 3" or "MacOS 10.3" or "Mac OS XI" or "Mac OS 11". But the cd cover displayed "Mac OS X Version 11". This is of course wrong in many ways. It is not the 11th release of MacOS or Mac OS X. It is wrong whether one takes the "X" as a number or as a trademark.

Hopefully some intelligent person at Apple starts thinking about that and the next OS will be correctly named "Mac OS X Version 3" or "Mac OS 11" or "Mac OS XI". And by the way Apple started counting with "0", so we end up with "Mac OS X Version 0", "Mac OS X Version 1", "Mac OS X Version 2" and now Version 3 with Panther, which would normally be version 4, because software releases start at 1.0, not 0.0.

I'm probably gonna get flamed for this, but my guess is that when it comes to the next full release of the Mac OS, it will have X11 fully integrated and then Apple might decide to call it Mac OS X11
;-D
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