Re: Planned obsolescence ? (was: Re: Architecture baseline for Forky)

On Tue, 2025-10-28 at 09:59 +0100, Romain Dolbeau wrote:
> Le lun. 27 oct. 2025 =C3=A0 22:58, Milan Kupcevic <[email protected]> a =
=C3=A9crit :
> > It would be more reasonable to count 7 years since mass sales or wide
> > availability ends as hardware typically lasts 5 to 7 years in productio=
n
> > environment.
>=20
> Hardware lasts a lot longer. People are forced to update because
> vendors have given up on support and are forcing users to upgrade.
> It's called planned obsolescence, as I'm sure you all already know.

There is no such thing is planned obsolescence. Code has to be maintained a=
nd
that costs money. You cannot force any vendor to support old hardware forev=
er.

You can still pay them to get support for ancient hardware in most cases th=
ough.

Adrian

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