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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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[–] 13 points 11 months ago (2 children)

You don't typically pay to run Linux distros. They're open-source. I can't imagine they'd be subject to this.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    Upgrades are more seamless as well, it's definitely a bit more blurry of a process. Plus Ubuntu releases twice a year, so their versions are more like the equivalent of Microsoft's service packs (or whatever they call them now) but on a rolling basis.

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