[OJFord]

There's value, albeit less in the minor vs patch distinction I think. So you could imagine a world in which SemVer came first, Linux uses it, and we're on 1.5.19 but usually drop the 1. because we've agreed there'll never be a v2.

[bonzini]

That's pretty much the state of the 3.x releases, but at some point numbers got big.

[umanwizard]

I’d say it was the stage of the 2.6.x series.

[bonzini]

In 2.6.x patch levels were the fourth number in the version, not the third.

[umanwizard]

What would be the point of that?