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Why the Update Fever is Bad
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[quote][b]xaos[/b] wrote: Had the same idea as Earl Grey... But in response to Sam, even with the funny hat on: IMHO the arguments do miss the point Niko made in the post, namely that there simply aren't any relevant bugs to fix (at least that he knows of) - and nothing indicating a bias against security updates. So probably that hat is made of tin foil... ;) What in my experience does come out of the "constantly update" paradigm is not so much an incremental improvement, but even more pressure to add new features, even if they are complete shit and mostly not working, because "it is what users expect". We can then fix it with the following updates - which rarely ever happens as these shall then include other new features, of course. Then again: Security updates and other bug fixes are another thing entirely (and do at least ameliorate the previous point). That sometimes something goes wrong isn't new - it is about as easy to break software with an update as it is to make not working software in the first place, and it wasn't the first time nor will it be the last that Microsoft sent out an update that broke stuff. It may even be intentional, even if that sounds like an evil scheme (note that this is hyperbole): If a particular interface is deemed broken beyond fix it might be best to remove it (invoke an analogy with cancer at your discretion, I won't). Now in this case apparently it didn't work out so well, but there have been numerous APIs over time that just disappeared, and it was for good. So while the outcry is legitimate to a point we may start to exaggerate the issue out of proportion. And yet back to the actual issue: I still think Earl Grey has the best solution - just publish an update every couple of months with a new build number, which will without further interaction give an indication that, yes, this program is still maintained.[/quote]
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