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With regards to KDE4 perhaps because I was following it I was fully aware of how buggy and incomplete it would be. I saw ample evidence of their attempt to warn people off. The version number was tricky but if you think about it they didn't have a lot of options. People needed to know what the most recent version of 3 was for the reasons you mentioned. It is still KDE but is very different software. When I was trying out Firefox 3 I was well aware that it would be buggier than the latest version of 2. If KDE marketed a different way it would have been even more confusing and misleading. Releases like Firefox 3 and KDE4 can't simply subtract .05 from their whole version number when they change the software and features drastically. We would probably need everyone to start doing it their (KDE's) way and that probably won't happen either. I think you as much as made the point already.

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