Re: X11 for Mac OS X v1.0 to ship in Panther
Re: X11 for Mac OS X v1.0 to ship in Panther
- Subject: Re: X11 for Mac OS X v1.0 to ship in Panther
- From: Robin Goodfellow <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 09:48:07 +0930
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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