SleafordMod@feddit.uk to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 13 hours agoCampaigners urge EU to mandate 15 years of OS updateswww.theregister.comexternal-linkmessage-square50fedilinkarrow-up1286arrow-down13file-text
arrow-up1283arrow-down1external-linkCampaigners urge EU to mandate 15 years of OS updateswww.theregister.comSleafordMod@feddit.uk to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 13 hours agomessage-square50fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareKorhaka@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·3 hours agoThat sounds like an insane duration, even LTS distros are not usually anything like 15 years
minus-squarewhyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 hours agoyeah but you don’t pay 150euros for it + all the ads and stuffs but yeah, I don’t see the point of this, it’s clearly aimed at Microsoft, and at this point alternative solutions exist
minus-squaredanhab99@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 hours agoI almost feel like the compromise we will eventually land on is that if an OS maker like Microsoft wants to continue advertising on your OS they have to take some liability for its security.
That sounds like an insane duration, even LTS distros are not usually anything like 15 years
yeah but you don’t pay 150euros for it + all the ads and stuffs
but yeah, I don’t see the point of this, it’s clearly aimed at Microsoft, and at this point alternative solutions exist
I almost feel like the compromise we will eventually land on is that if an OS maker like Microsoft wants to continue advertising on your OS they have to take some liability for its security.