This probably begs the question: Should security patches/fixes always be released by themselves, instead of rolled into general system updates? It may not be a bad idea.Īs far as Apple getting paranoid about giving out pre-release software to developers, I think that's mainly due to all the Safari builds that leaked onto Usenet. My theory is, it contained security fixes such as patches for SSH - and Apple felt they couldn't risk waiting any longer to roll it out, and have a Microsoft-like fiasco develop where OS X got exploited before fixes were available. Since it turned out to have all these issues and got recalled, it looks like this guy was correct.Īssuming this is true, why did Apple go ahead and push 10.2.8 out the door when their own employees knew it wasn't ready yet? He claimed he had good friends working at Apple who told him that the 'in house' word was, the new 10.2.8 release still needed some tweaking, and wasn't really quite ready for public release.

Well, what disturbed me most was the comment someone made over on MacFixIt when 10.2.8 was first released.

Games for mac os x 10.2.8