> 3. You don't leave memory corruption vulnerabilities in software to preserve backwards compatibility. It is better to break software briefly than to leave mem

> 3. You don't leave memory corruption vulnerabilities in software to preserve backwards compatibility. It is better to break software briefly than to leave memory corruption vulnerabilities in it. I know nothing about FreeBSD updates. But my reading was that there is a concern that a misguided patch could break the update process itself, leaving a lot of systems unable to fix themselves. Updating the code that distributes updates is risky.