This is a great point that one would think obvious enough, except that there's usually some pretty powerful vested interests that I suspect like to try hard to obscure it in order to keep users and devs on the constant upgrade treadmill, in turn padding their bottom line.
Case in point: My favourite Linux distro Debian, knows newer isn't always better very well. They are sometimes criticised for their stable release being "behind the times", but if you want the cutting edge you can pretty easily run the Debian Testing or Unstable releases (even Unstable is pretty stable most of the time). What people don't get or perhaps don't want to accept is that Debian stable values stability over all else, it's meant for server applications and the fact that it's a bit "behind the times" makes it better for this role than it would be otherwise.
This is a great point that one would think obvious enough, except that there's usually some pretty powerful vested interests that I suspect like to try hard to obscure it in order to keep users and devs on the constant upgrade treadmill, in turn padding their bottom line.
Case in point: My favourite Linux distro Debian, knows newer isn't always better very well. They are sometimes criticised for their stable release being "behind the times", but if you want the cutting edge you can pretty easily run the Debian Testing or Unstable releases (even Unstable is pretty stable most of the time). What people don't get or perhaps don't want to accept is that Debian stable values stability over all else, it's meant for server applications and the fact that it's a bit "behind the times" makes it better for this role than it would be otherwise.