Do you know how nice it is to download a 5meg file through a slow, instable,
expensive PPP link? I am certainly not going to get the whole source code
from the Internet. Patches are ok, and the base tree I take from a CD-ROM.
Maybe not distributing patches for every version would save Linus's work,
but it would probably scare off a lot of users who aren't blessed with free
Internet connections. Myself included.
BTW, it would be nice if there were a skip patch from last old stable to first
new stable version, i.e. 1.2.13 -> 2.0.0. I don't know how large this patch
would grow, however. Though I still prefer downloading 3 meg to downloading
5 meg ;).
Christian