The idea I guess is that many project historically use the power of the decimals to indicate major from minor versions. That’s it. This ”scared” and ”terror”

The idea I guess is that many project historically use the power of the decimals to indicate major from minor versions. That’s it. This ”scared” and ”terror” talk is a bit unnecessary as the only one interested in numbers in a version no. is someone selling it. Linus is mocking this very fact by arbitrarily raising the kernel version.