Re:Patching is hard; so what?
by toast0 on Saturday September 16, 2017 @06:48AM
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Corporate IT is doing what software developers have taught them through experience and pavlovian condition:
Don't touch anything, because it will break if you touch it.
IFF people who release software learn how to release security patches and bugfixes that don't include new features or break existing parts (except when breaking changes are actually needed), then, after several years of good results from pushing changes, Corporate IT will be conditioned to just push security fixes, it's not a big deal, plus it's important.
Don't touch anything, because it will break if you touch it.
IFF people who release software learn how to release security patches and bugfixes that don't include new features or break existing parts (except when breaking changes are actually needed), then, after several years of good results from pushing changes, Corporate IT will be conditioned to just push security fixes, it's not a big deal, plus it's important.