well you just revert to a prior ed if that happens

I feel like people are too used to Microsoft now. You can just not use shit in Linux

people are not the problem

i'm thinking servers

I just mean this idea that there's all these insurmountable problems

people dont just hop to new versions willy nilly my dude

you get one sacrificial lamb machine so you can vett the changes

then if it sucks, its stuck there, potentially with a security flaw, until they are switched over to a new non cancerous version

which happens on one non essential machine

which then just gets reverted

there is potential financial damages this move from meritocracy could incur.

very *very* minor damages

unless the whole IT department is on crack

like MS released a fucked update just like... this year?

this shit happens fairly often

yes, but that is not a forced migration to an entirely new os

just revert and wait for ms to fix itself

you can just use an old version of an OS

like most companies already do with windows

the ones not concerned with security yes

not really. Not all machines need to be win10 for security purposes lol

plus if the new update is fucked, that's a bigger security issue

well if thats how you want to look at things, then i hate to break it to you but everything is a security loophole

as for the code they want to revoke, this will mean that the os itself would be crippled

prior versions are still available

if they do take back their code they help contribute, it wont just open up security holes, it would also make certain things what we generally depend upon upright mia

this dispute is whether or not CoCLinux can keep the shit

well heres the dilema for older versions

not whether or not every version of Linux gets taken apart

it doesnt work like that

certain distros will need certain variants of certain dependencies

if they dont have what its looking for, it wont work

you can possibly patch it to work with a newer variant but thats just not feasible

yes, and you just revert to a prior version of the already functioning distro

the new version will be fucked, old version is fine

um

no

all versions are fucked for a different reason

how long will it take for a perfectly functioning older build to be fucked?

wut, companies *already installed them*
you can revert *in linux* to an older build ez

if the new one is buggered