[ketralnis]

If you're running software maintained by someone else and you don't let them do that, and there's a security or major bug fix and you lose business or esteem of peers -- it's YOUR fault.

Ignoring upstream security fixes on a work-related machine that you use to make $$, is ASKING FOR IT. WHEN it breaks something that is your fault for being so stupid.

Neither of these extremisms are helpful. It's clearly more nuanced than any of this.

[dtoznayxvf]

Of course it is. Context matters. I was trying to keep with the spirit of the article: 'Here's a fair warning: this article is reductio ad absurdum, therefore you shouldn't take it as gospel. ' Usually though in my experience, if you also control the network, then most security updates can wait to be tested on a non-production machine. Also it helps to Never ever use Windows.