[CAG CheechDogg]

Originally Posted by cellarius

That's what test-installations are for. And given the known security issues in all vB4 versions below v.2.2 this seems rather short-sighted in my opinion. If you are a skilled enough admin to take that risk or fix the security issues yourself, then fixing the problems that come with an upgrade should not cause you headaches. If they do, then are you really that comfortable with known security issues? Of course, its your choice, but surely its not a way I would widely recommend.

Especially since the upgrade we're talking here, from 4.2.1 to 4.2.2, will hardly break anything.

Great points cellarius but that really is not the point and or reason that "thetechgenius" and others don't upgrade. Why doesn't vB offer updates to the older versions and simply charge and extra fee for those instead of saying "oh well those are unsupported versions"? Do car companies not support older versions of cars or electronic companies not support or fix older versions of their product just because they are older versions ? lol ...

I guarantee you that if Vb offered paid updates and patches for older versions they would get a great response from their customers as well as make money out of it because of it.

Anyways ... it's just an idea and something that we all know is not going to happen ...


Oh and these updates and patches could be tracked the same way as licenses are tracked so that you can't just give away these updates and patches to others .... does that make sense?