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

  • Runaway@lemmy.zipEnglish
    62·
    4 days ago

    15 is an arbitrarily long time. I think forcing it to be open sourced upon the companies end of life is the better option

    • ronigami@lemmy.worldEnglish
      161·
      3 days ago

      Then you can have a company that acquires the original failed company and provides “support” in the form of one bugfix per year.

      All of these solutions are gamable except for requiring that the solution be open source from the get-go.