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From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr>
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Terry Lambert wrote:
> The problem with this is you are very soon running version 99
> (or 100, if you want it stable).
...
> Nothing can kill a product faster than version bloat; witness
> NetWare and Oracle.

But MS Windows reached version 2000 some time back, and isn't dead yet.

Rahul