From: John Cuccia 

On Wed, 29 Jan 2003 22:21:36 -0800, "Rich"  wrote:

>   For other reasons, I think it is impractical.  You expect a full release
for any update.  This is a good way to discourage any software vendor from
making releases.  The testing effort is enormous.

Testing is enormous in any case: either the vendor does it before
update/release or *every* conscientious customer does it before updating
production machines.  Naturally, the selfish vendors prefer to offload the
testing to customers.

>  Updates are very easy in comparison.  They are easy to apply and take very
little time.

Only If they don't break anything.  Since they are not thoroughly tested by
their creators, customers are forced to either test them in a lab
environent or to roll the dice by deploying an untested fix to a production
environment.

My selfish viewpoint: It is (e.g.)  Microsoft's product, let them test test
it.  They charge me enough for software without requiring me to test
updates that do no more than fix holes in the products they sold me in the
first place.

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