Re: Planned obsolescence ? (was: Re: Architecture baseline for Forky)
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <[email protected]>
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On Tue, 2025-10-28 at 09:59 +0100, Romain Dolbeau wrote: > Le lun. 27 oct. 2025 à 22:58, Milan Kupcevic <[email protected]> a écrit : > > 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 production > > environment. > > 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 and that costs money. You cannot force any vendor to support old hardware forever. You can still pay them to get support for ancient hardware in most cases though. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer `. `' Physicist `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913