> >From homesteading the noosphere:
>
> This rule underlies the fact that open-source software tends to stay in
> beta for a long time, and not get even a 1.0 version number until the
> developers are very sure it will not hand out a lot of nasty surprises. In
> the closed-source world, Versio
>From homesteading the noosphere:
This rule underlies the fact that open-source software tends to stay in beta
for a long time, and not get even a 1.0 version number until the developers are
very sure it will not hand out a lot of nasty surprises. In the closed-source
world, Version 1.0 means `