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Re:The Linux 2.5, Ruby 1.9 and Python 3 release management a... by dispose13432 on Monday December 26, 2016 @07:30PM (#13260531)
I think another example was by joelonsoftware, where when MS moved to win 95, they actually ran popular software looking for bugs, and found the SimCity would use-after-free (which, before 95 wouldn't crash), so they modified their OS to leave that memory cell intact even after free.
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Re:The Linux 2.5, Ruby 1.9 and Python 3 release management a... by monochromatic on Monday December 26, 2016 @10:43PM (#13261153)
They do this kind of stuff all the time[0], and it provides enormous value to users.

[0] https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/

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Re:The Linux 2.5, Ruby 1.9 and Python 3 release management a... by rasz_pl on Tuesday December 27, 2016 @11:22AM (#13263986)
They do it to this day. Application compatibility assistant or whatever its called now runs on every single machine and hot patches loaded programs. Malware authors love it.

https://tzworks.net/prototype_page.php?proto_id=33

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