Ron Johnson <ron.l.john...@cox.net> posted 4a4e104e.2050...@cox.net, excerpted below, on Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:06:06 -0500:
> Even in the closed-source world, there can be lots of "sub-minor" > versions out there, especially for stuff like Oracle, which releases > security upgrades on a regular basis, not to mention supporting many OSs > on many architectures. You'd need *lots* of binary diffs, and that's a > hassle to manage, both from, for example, Oracle's side and from the > customer's side. > > In this day of high-bandwidth pipes, and DVDs-via-FedEx, there really is > no overriding need for binary diffs. Reasonable points. My last experience beyond the trivial doing something with someone else's computer in the proprietaryware world was... eight years ago now, getting close to a decade, and in fact it has /been/ about a decade since I started focusing mostly on FLOSS, and fat(er than dialup) pipes were rather less common back then, so I'm sure things have changed a bit since then. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
