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Why the Update Fever is Bad
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[quote][b]Sam[/b] wrote: [devil's advocate hat: on] I don't understand. What's stopping you? Do you not know of any bugs in your software? Or are they all so deep and complex that they would take prohibitively long to fix? Or is your release process so inefficient you can't ship a new version every week or two? Asking for bug fixes (or performance improvements, or whatever) is not asking for interface changes. Surely you have bugs you can fix while maintaining your current interfaces. Your interfaces may not be perfect but you'd have to have screwed them up pretty bad for it to be impossible to improve anything else without changing them. If you're afraid to release an update because you're afraid that fixing one bug could cause even more bugs, that's a troubling statement about the repeatability of your process. How did you ever write the software in the first place, if you couldn't tell if any solution you implemented wouldn't cause more problems than it solved? That would make me not trust your software at all. What does "non-security critical software" mean these days? Almost every program works with untrusted data from the internet today, like image files. Your apps aren't sandboxed, so I would definitely consider them to be security critical. They aren't signed or distributed over a secure connection, either, so I'm not sure how I can trust them at all. I see a lot of hypothetical excuses, but I don't see a good explanation for why updates are inherently bad. Microsoft had a bad release of Windows, therefore you're not going to fix any issues with your own software?[/quote]
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