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Should OS makers, like Microsoft, be legally required to provide 15 years of security updates?

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[-] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 42 points 3 weeks ago

This is stupid.

15 years is a massive time to just update your OS.

15 years ago instagram didn’t exist, the iPad was new, and people were just updating from Vista to Windows 7. I think Hadoop was just created then.

That is a massive amount of time to support software that would have almost no architectural protection against things like heartbleed.

[-] thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Better laws would be:

to mandate open source relaease at EOS
automatically public domain at EOS
require paid operating systems to supporr hardware from 15 years ago (as a consumer protection law, so that it only applies to paid OS's (and also ones that require a license, even if it’s “free” due to coming with the hardware), so that foss projects arent hurt)

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