← Back to context Comment by guappa 2 months ago Had it been open source, they could have just fixed the software instead 4 comments guappa Reply masklinn 2 months ago Fixing the upstream would not have updated it on the millions of machines running it, which is what they wanted to not break. cesarb 2 months ago > Fixing the upstream would not have updated it on the millions of machines running it,It was a very different world back then. You couldn't even assume a dial-up connection.Nowadays, the software would have been automatically updated for 99% of the machines running it, whether they wanted that update or not. masklinn 2 months ago Hah. Debian will happily keep shipping libraries years out of date. Then complain that you’re holding them back when they finally wake up and update sid to a bleeding edge release. 1 reply →
masklinn 2 months ago Fixing the upstream would not have updated it on the millions of machines running it, which is what they wanted to not break. cesarb 2 months ago > Fixing the upstream would not have updated it on the millions of machines running it,It was a very different world back then. You couldn't even assume a dial-up connection.Nowadays, the software would have been automatically updated for 99% of the machines running it, whether they wanted that update or not. masklinn 2 months ago Hah. Debian will happily keep shipping libraries years out of date. Then complain that you’re holding them back when they finally wake up and update sid to a bleeding edge release. 1 reply →
cesarb 2 months ago > Fixing the upstream would not have updated it on the millions of machines running it,It was a very different world back then. You couldn't even assume a dial-up connection.Nowadays, the software would have been automatically updated for 99% of the machines running it, whether they wanted that update or not. masklinn 2 months ago Hah. Debian will happily keep shipping libraries years out of date. Then complain that you’re holding them back when they finally wake up and update sid to a bleeding edge release. 1 reply →
masklinn 2 months ago Hah. Debian will happily keep shipping libraries years out of date. Then complain that you’re holding them back when they finally wake up and update sid to a bleeding edge release. 1 reply →
Fixing the upstream would not have updated it on the millions of machines running it, which is what they wanted to not break.
> Fixing the upstream would not have updated it on the millions of machines running it,
It was a very different world back then. You couldn't even assume a dial-up connection.
Nowadays, the software would have been automatically updated for 99% of the machines running it, whether they wanted that update or not.
Hah. Debian will happily keep shipping libraries years out of date. Then complain that you’re holding them back when they finally wake up and update sid to a bleeding edge release.
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