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Campaigners urge EU to mandate 15 years of OS updates (www.theregister.com)
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Should OS makers, like Microsoft, be legally required to provide 15 years of security updates?

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[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 36 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

That sounds like an insane duration, even LTS distros are not usually anything like 15 years

[–] whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

yeah but you don't pay 150euros for it + all the ads and stuffs

but yeah, I don't see the point of this, it's clearly aimed at Microsoft, and at this point alternative solutions exist

[–] danhab99@programming.dev 5 points 2 weeks ago

I almost feel like the compromise we will eventually land on is that if an OS maker like Microsoft wants to continue advertising on your OS they have to take some liability for its security.

[–] ratten@lemmings.world 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

These multi-billion dollar corporations have more than enough resources to provide updates for 15 years.

There's nothing insane about it, unless you've been conditioned to live vicariously through business owners.

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Pretty sure postmarketOS isn't made by a multi-billion dollar corporation. Such a requirement would mean ONLY multi-billion dollar corporations can release an operating system. You do not want to give them that power.

[–] ratten@lemmings.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

If it's free software, then anyone can implement the fixes themselves.

Doing so with proprietary software would be illegal.

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 weeks ago

There are companies still running XP.

[–] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

They didn't say you could not do version upgrade...