Re: Not patching clients??

[Brandon Butterworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>]

> My question or issue to present to the group is how do you approach
> a situation when management considers it unnecessary to patch clients? 

Get out your Charles Darwin and read, start an office sweepstake
on the outcome

1) everything is fine, it turns out all that effort patching was
   totally not needed

2) everything comes crashing down around you, manager gets a surprise
   promotion and is never heard of again. You get told to patch
   everything now or join him

3) people get fed up of ongoing mayhem and install something else that
   appears to not have a problem

> We're in the situation where it almost takes a major exploit to wreck
> havoc and change opinions.

Sometimes it does but "told you so" doesn't count for anything,
knowing means you're somehow supposed to have prevented it

If you can't fix the problem then share it, perhaps there's lots
of free effort in user land willing to do things themselves if
given the tools

brandon

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