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I continue to be confused be what I interpret as "version number envy". Are people really that impressed by version 14 vs version 7? If FF7 is awesome, Chrome 14 must be x2 awesome! Is Firefox development "behind" because of version numbers? I'm most surprised that Mozilla seems to take this so seriously. Are the numbers anything other than a marketing / PR game? Any reason either side couldn't arbitrarily jump to version 100 and TOTALLY CRUSH the competition?


This is not about marketing. I'm travelling and typing this on a phone right now, so I'll just link to a reply from the last time this misunderstanding appeared: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2679813




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