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

  • thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    1 month 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, so that foss projects arent hurt)