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How long should ANY company
be it software or something altogether different, support it's older products? 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, years?

With automobiles, after X amount of time a manufacturer stops producing parts for it, the aftermarket companies kick in.

Sounds like the same thing is happening here, so why should this be looked at any differently then the auto industry?
Posted by: John Zern   Posted on: 10/02/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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in a sense we dont need opensource  galileon | 09/30/06
Linux and Mac OS are also crap, too!  Grayson Peddie | 09/30/06
YEAH RIGHT !  Intellihence | 10/01/06
really?  galileon | 10/01/06
Riiiiiiiiiiiight  Shelendrea | 10/03/06
O(pen)bfuscated source  pj-xmesh | 10/03/06
Alternate Obsolesence  wjkahlssmd@... | 10/01/06
Who says the marketshare isn't already 10%?  PB_z | 10/02/06
zert and fixes  TekkWise@... | 10/01/06
We can't even trust Microsoft to patch its current versions of software  rh0 | 10/01/06
How long should ANY company  John Zern | 10/02/06
How long?  wallywalters | 10/02/06
Good on them, proactively protecting old versions  Boot_Agnostic | 10/02/06
Now here is a market for Symantec  No_Ax_to_Grind | 10/02/06
Symantec fixing problems?  sbarringer@... | 10/03/06
ZERT  Dumber_z | 10/02/06
Sheesh!  DarbyOhara | 10/02/06
ZERT what?  Krazyken39 | 10/02/06
Microsoft what?  pkrdk | 10/02/06
Right, the sky didn't fall.  sbarringer@... | 10/03/06
Microsoft patches galore  Eaglehawk_z | 10/03/06
ZERT Patch for Unsupported Windows Versions  wpinnix@... | 10/03/06
Here is what I did  agbags | 10/05/06

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