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> What you can't do is just stop updating the thing That's the choice being argued. You should have that option. It's unreasonable to expect that old software
by throwaway201103 6y ago
> What you can't do is just stop updating the thing
That's the choice being argued. You should have that option. It's unreasonable to expect that old software will always be supported. There is a real cost to it. But as long as I still have the machine it should be my choice as to when it no longer does the things I need it to do (at least until the point of physical failure).
- rcoveson 6y agoI didn't mean it that way. I meant to point out that you're stuck between a rock and a hard place whether you're a GNOME user or Windows 10 user. It's possible to stop updating, but you probably can't, because you probably need something in some Windows or GNOME release down the road.
- throwaway201103 6y agoAh yes that is true. It's a tradeoff between how much you need the old software to keep working and how much you need the other updates to the platform.
- Spivak 6y agoThe nice thing about OSS software is that you actually can selectively pull patches from upstream to build your own stable version. It’s way too much effort to do to for all software you use but not too unreasonable for your most used tools. At work we maintain lots of forks of libs we use. I maintain a fork of Ansible that has niceties like blocks you can loop over. It’s somewhat controversial to patch in features but we ended up deciding that it’s more important for software to do what we want.