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Not because of competition, but Emacs¹ and MiKTeX² also dropped the major number from their versioning schemes. ¹ https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/t

Not because of competition, but Emacs¹ and MiKTeX² also dropped the major number from their versioning schemes. ¹ https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tree/etc/NEWS.1-17#n1588 https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tree/etc/NEWS.1-... ² https://github.com/MiKTeX/miktex/issues/554 https://github.com/MiKTeX/miktex/issues/554

Izkata 3y ago
Java did it ages ago (1.5 and 1.6 became 5 and 6; I forget if 7 and 8 were also 1.7 and 1.8 originally)