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by b112 855 days ago
It was the same end-position prior to internet publishing of software.

No updates. No bugfixes. What you pressed to CD (as much as a buck per CD qty 1000), was what your customers got. Period.

And it hurt to republish, because those updates were via mail. The box/sleeve, the labelling, the labour, the shipping.

DEVs today have no idea how easy their push is.

Get it right or you fail.