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Never upgrading the dependencies is not specific to research.

For example the npm installations of react show that old versions are still downloaded a lot in the last 7 days: https://www.npmjs.com/package/react?activeTab=versions

jQuery on a random CDN with stats also shows that many websites are likely never going to update it: https://www.jsdelivr.com/package/npm/jquery?tab=stats

You also sees that with system administrators: here is curl on debian from people who shares about it: https://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=curl&show_in...




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