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countless instances of 4 year old software are running in critical roles. if it's so good, then a community can take on the burden of backporting fixes and/or w
by pas 3y ago
countless instances of 4 year old software are running in critical roles. if it's so good, then a community can take on the burden of backporting fixes and/or watching for CVEs for 4 years.
it's not a long time. it's inconvenient, for sure.
- yjftsjthsd-h 3y agoThey can't backport fixes or look at the newer code for help because that newer code isn't open source yet. It's true that a community that really wanted to could start implementing their own bug fixes, but I wouldn't hold my breath.