Obviously, Linus may (and will) do whatever he wants. But personally, I believe this is pointless, because this removes almost all of semantics from version nu

Obviously, Linus may (and will) do whatever he wants. But personally, I believe this is pointless, because this removes almost all of semantics from version numbers. The only thing's left is ordering, i.e. 3.0 is newer than 2.6.x.