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This! Security updates bundled with feature updates are what makes updates hostile to the consumer.


In their defense, it would be difficult to keep security updates fully separate from feature updates since sometimes replacing a vulnerable feature with a new feature is the easiest fix rather than pushing the new feature, but also issuing a separate fix for those that don't want the new feature.

In other words, it's only reasonable to expect security updates for a certain length of time and not indefinitely.




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