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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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[โ€“] nucleative@lemmy.world 17 points 2 weeks ago (12 children)

15 years is too long, it doesn't match the state of the industry or technological progress.

If anything this slows down innovation which leads me to suspect the 15 year idea was though of by someone who dislikes any technical changes.

[โ€“] Highlandcow@feddit.uk 0 points 2 weeks ago

Fair like imagine if Microsoft was forced to support windows 8 for 15 years, a operating system people barely use, also some OSs arnt ran by huge companys

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