A turning point for CVE numbers

Posted Mar 9, 2024 0:50 UTC (Sat) by DanilaBerezin (guest, #168271)
In reply to: A turning point for CVE numbers by pizza
Parent article: A turning point for CVE numbers

> It's _vastly_ cheaper to keep using it than to replace it with something else. By multiple orders of magnitude.

This is a pretty large blanket statement that definitely isn't always true. If it were as true as you claim it was, things wouldn't fade into obscurity or ever be replaced. There are plenty of conditions where replacing something is cheaper than continuing to use it. X is a great recent example.

A turning point for CVE numbers

Posted Mar 9, 2024 1:21 UTC (Sat) by pizza (subscriber, #46) [Link]

> This is a pretty large blanket statement that definitely isn't always true.

I didn't claim it was true in a general sense; I only claimed it was true for the Linux kernel.