Software Updates: Courgette (2009)

From 2009. Here&#x27;s the blog post announcing it: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.chromium.org&#x2F;2009&#x2F;07&#x2F;smaller-is-faster-and-safer-too.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.chromium.org&#x2F;2009&#x2F;07&#x2F;smaller-is-faster-and-safer...</a>

What happened to software patent litigation against Google concerning Courgette?<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;lwn.net&#x2F;Articles&#x2F;359939&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;lwn.net&#x2F;Articles&#x2F;359939&#x2F;</a>

Is bandwidth really the limiting factor for updating desktop applications?<p>If you had asked me I would have guessed the limitation would be QA time. Surely they need to do some manual QA before pushing a release to prod, and surely that is more expensive than bandwidth.<p>That being said, it&#x27;s a really cool project and I&#x27;m not at all arguing it shouldn&#x27;t exist because it does improve the user&#x27;s experience.

I note there are quite a few recent commits with fixes to what could be security vulnerabilities.<p>e.g. Robust ELF header parsing, NULL pointer access, memory leak, undefined behavior.<p>So probably should update if you use it!<p>What is the bet someone has been stressing it with American Fuzzy Lop.

I wonder how useful this could be for large-scale server-side code deploys?