Comment on Campaigners urge EU to mandate 15 years of OS updates
Zink@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
This seems backwards. Let’s just assume we’re always going to be willingly beholden to tech giants, and so we’re going to pass a law to make our masters treat us well.
Maybe instead campaign for a law that says all publicly funded computer resources must be reliably usable for 15 years. So you either go FOSS and save money too, or you get guarantees in writing before you hand over your hand over money to the people who won’t even let you see what their code is doing on your hardware.
spicehoarder@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
You can already patch windows as much as you want.
buttnugget@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You can? How do you do that?
HiTekRedNek@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
By replacing it with something better.
buttnugget@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yeah, I’ll just call up the CTO and ask for a new deployment of 300,000 VMs lmfao