<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 6:08 PM, Oren Beck <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:orenbeck@gmail.com">orenbeck@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
There seems to me an ethics issue developing . One possibly directed<br>
at establishing the "pattern of crime" RE: EOL software/hardware<br>
support.<br></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>While I'm not sure what you're saying from your post (which doesn't make much sense to me), you seem to be speculating that dropping support for EOL software is equivalent to locking up digital media in DRM. </div>
<div><br></div><div>These are apples over here, and those are oranges over there. ;-)</div><div><br></div><div>Is it your contention that vendors should support a given software release forever? If so, what is your plan to ensure that free software developers start supporting every past release of their software? If you're not holding OSS developers to that standard, why are you holding commercial developers to it?</div>
<div><br></div>-- <br>Chris<br><br><br><br>
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