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Re:Sony software updates breaks movie theater projectors by userbinator on Sunday December 31, 2023 @04:26PM (#38827660)
It's all an incentive for "don't just churn software, plan well ahead".

This also seems to be broadly incompatible with fixing certain security vulnerabilities - would everybody have to maintain TLS 1.1 or plaintext api endpoints for old clients?

Or they would forced to produce an update that doesn't do anything other than e.g. upgrade the TLS version --- and has absolutely nothing else.

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Re:Sony software updates breaks movie theater projectors by stevehawk on Sunday December 31, 2023 @09:52PM (#38829421)
it also skyrockets the barrier to entry for software to a point that no one but the big companies could compete.
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Re:Sony software updates breaks movie theater projectors by userbinator on Monday January 01, 2024 @02:52AM (#38830318)
It raises the barrier enough to stop the lowest-common-denominator forced-obsolescence crap from becoming popular. If an individual can make software that lasts, big companies have no excuse.
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