“My long goodbye to Windows XP” (2022)

Re:“My long goodbye to Windows XP” (2022) by bee_rider on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @10:42PM (#35448627)

I think a lot of companies agree with you more or less — well, companies don’t have personalities or psychologies, so psychopathy is not really possible. But charging for security updates is too much of a reputation risk.

Of course because they are profit driven entities and they can’t charge for security patches, they just stop writing them.

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Re:“My long goodbye to Windows XP” (2022) by somenameforme on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @01:10AM (#35449560)

Companies are not unaccountable entities. They're headed by people who make and carry out these decisions. And withholding security updates as a means of planned obsolescence is absolutely a consciously directed strategy. In many ways companies act as too much of a shield for bad behavior. When a "company" does something awful, it's not the company - but the executive leadership doing that.

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