[threeseed]

Not sure what you're point is.

(a) Not all vendors are the same, (b) Not all situations are the same, (c) Open source isn't exactly world renowned for porting back fixes to older releases.

Making broad generalisations is never helpful.

[mauricemir]

I used to work for a MAJOR MAJOR Oracle customer and they would not back port y2k fixes to relatively recent oracle products ie the version before.

This caused a lot of BT employes a lot of pain you had to get a very senior manager to sign off on missing your y2k deadline which was the year before y2k - and you probably got dinged on your apr for it