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Campaigners urge EU to mandate 15 years of OS updates (www.theregister.com)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Should OS makers, like Microsoft, be legally required to provide 15 years of security updates?

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[–] 63 points 11 months ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 15 points 11 months 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.

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