OT: PGP, commercial product vs opensource stuff - viability/usability

[Fairlight]

Y'all catch dis heeyah?  J. P. Radley been jivin' 'bout like:
> There's no such numbering as "5.6" for any SCO product.

Yeah.  As an explanation of why I get confused.  It's people leaving out
numbers from the version, basically.  No offense to John intended.

Same thing happens to me with a bunch of products.  It annoys me when
people say "filePro 5.14" when there's no such creature.  If the versions
are close enough, people suddenly start asking where that version is.

In the specific case of OSR 6.0 vs "5.6" and 6.0, I went the wrong way when
presented with a version number missing a part.  A large part of this stems
from being used to the Solaris versioning, where "Solaris 8" is really 2.8
or 5.8 (depending on which way you count their versioning--it's really the
same thing AFAIK, unless one refers to x86 and the other to Sparc).  So I'm
now used to doing the translation upwards based on the last digit when this
occurs.  5.8 becomes 8, and in this case, 5.6 suddenly became 6...which is
confusing but made sense to me at the time.

At least you know -why- I interpreted it that way now.

The real solution to confusion of this sort is for people to give the
full, complete, real version numbers. :) (Again, no offense to John.  I
know oodles of people that do it far, far, FAR more often--and far more
consistently, no less.)

Honest miscommunication on this one.  At any rate, GPG works on both 5.0.6
and 6.0.0, as I've now verified.

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