> This is actually about blasting OS X for not having updated versions of software.
No it's not, it's blasting OS X for shipping software with a known remote execution vulnerability, and not allowing the user to easily upgrade that software themselves due to new OS-wide security policies.
>and not allowing the user to easily upgrade that software themselves due to new OS-wide security policies.
But the author didn't try that. They merely speculated that
upgrading over top of that will almost certainly screw something up later.
I upgraded the Subversion that's shipped with XCode 5 on OS X 10.9 (both old, I know) without any problems simply by manually replacing the files in /Applications/XCode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin.
No it's not, it's blasting OS X for shipping software with a known remote execution vulnerability, and not allowing the user to easily upgrade that software themselves due to new OS-wide security policies.