Actually there was... [LWN.net]

Actually there was...

Posted May 24, 2011 6:47 UTC (Tue) by khim (subscriber, #9252)
In reply to: No 2.7 ? by copsewood
Parent article: 2.8.0?

But I suppose something similar happened between IPv4 and IPv6, there never was a genuine v5.

Yes and no. IPv5 was fringe experimental protocol (and it was not actually called IPv5 but it's authors), but it still took the slot. There are nothing to do this for Linux: AFAICS 2.7 was never used by anyone.

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Actually there was...

Posted May 24, 2011 21:07 UTC (Tue) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link] (1 responses)

iirc 2.7 does already exist.

It was invoked by our friendly legal clowns the SCOG people, who complained that it was one of the versions of linux that infringed their precious eye pee.

Cheers,
Wol

Have they shown this version to the world?

Posted May 25, 2011 6:00 UTC (Wed) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link]

I think only pointer to the version 2.7 exist. They just used time machine to fine complaint and missed correct time frame. That's why they lost: Linux currently does not infringe but it will.

To not escalate time paradox any further we must create version 2.7 ASAP.