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Smart gadgets’ failure to commit to software support could be illegal, FTC warns (arstechnica.com)
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[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Everything sold should have a standardised, recognisable, symbol/sticker on the front showing the minimum date that software support will be provided until.

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Nah. All companies should be required to provide updates for a minimum — say 5 years — and whenever they choose to EOL, they must open source everything related to the products feature-set. If you can't do that, then you don't deserve to compete, or waste humanities finite resources with your dead-end greedy planet-killing civilisation-ending narcissism.

Planned obsolescence needs to be exterminated with extreme prejudice.