win95/98/ME and printers. An ethics issue comparable to DRM servers or not?

[Christofer C. Bell]

On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 6:08 PM, Oren Beck <orenbeck at gmail.com> wrote:

> There seems to me an ethics issue developing . One possibly directed
> at establishing the "pattern of crime" RE: EOL software/hardware
> support.
>

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.

These are apples over here, and those are oranges over there.  ;-)

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?

-- 
Chris
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