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1. Omni

   Sure, today it's version 17 and in a year it's version 29. Can you see the problem? We're going to run out of numbers, Mozilla!

   Sunday, 23-Dec-12 15:09:37 UTC from web
   • Omni

     @omni Even though Google obviously does this much worse.

     Sunday, 23-Dec-12 15:10:09 UTC in context
   • RedEnchilada (notice the lack of a space)

     @omni "Firefox 6.294e+29"

     Sunday, 23-Dec-12 15:10:32 UTC in context
   • Omni RedEnchilada (notice the lack of a space)

     @redenchilada And then package managers will break because they will think "Oh, this is version 6.294. Version 578829 was obviously newer."

     Sunday, 23-Dec-12 15:11:15 UTC in context
   • Scribus

     @omni Maybe they'll switch to hex. That'll at least buy them time.

     Sunday, 23-Dec-12 15:14:04 UTC in context