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The same line of reasoning applies to IT departments as well, though. If you force corporate IT departments to spend all their time installing your daily updates, the cost of ownership of your product for the company goes way up and the department heads will start looking for cheaper alternatives. Exceptions could surely be made for critical vulnerabilities, especially those being exploited in the wild, but this is a low-severity DoS. As another commenter said, if you made this an off-schedule hotfix you would have to do it for basically every bug.


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