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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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[–] ronigami@lemmy.world 3 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

This would almost certainly rule out Linux as an option. What Linux vendor feels comfortable committing to something, anything, for 15 years?

[–] ratten@lemmings.world 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Because Linux is free software, we can implement the fixes ourselves.

Doing so with Windows or Crapple would literally be illegal.

[–] ronigami@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago

Yes, but to fulfill that requirement the company would have to be around to review the code changes and merge and provide QA. For 15 years.