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You mean opensource has the same problem with updates, but you can always fork (which helps indeed).
by GoblinSlayer 6y ago
You mean opensource has the same problem with updates, but you can always fork (which helps indeed).
- crpatino 6y agoWe are talking orthogonal problems here. Closed Source software prevents users from having an "out" if the product they used to rely on stops serving their best interests. Automatic Updates do push potentially detrimental changes into critical infrastructure of your customers with no notice. No amount of open source can fix that, because the "no notice" part of it precludes you from forking the project in any time frame that would allow you to respond to the crisis... No cancel that, and aggressive upgrade policy from any critical piece of open source software should incentivize rational agents to preemptively fork the project in order to address the upgrade risk. The fact that you do not see this happening every day talks of the percentage of rational agents in the environment.
- darkwater 6y agoOr stick to the same old version. Or know how your data is written and read and create a parser for it to migrate it to another program, even if the original author dies.