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Re:Hackers hit French national blood bank by erremerre on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @10:49AM (#50367288)
I think this is probably something good to happen because what it is not normal, is that a company, any company, can sell you a half assed product, call it End Of Life with flagrant issues still happening, clean their hands, and leave you with the problem or having to buy another product, with the environmental cost of it plus the economical cost of it.

And the only solution, it is to enforce company to offer updates and support a product for at least half a century, and enforce that any code of that product must become available and modifiable in case the company is unable to provide with such support.

If that means that company produce less products, so it is. I am tired as a consumer of having to throw away completely good products just for this reason, from ASUS routers, to car. Hopefully whatever legislation that happens to solve this situation with the industry will also affect consumer products (or at least, we could adquire industrial products instead).

Re:Hackers hit French national blood bank by eastbound on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @03:13PM (#50370875)
How do you deal with bankruptcy? Also most companies, even larger ones with seemingly a well-managed board, actually rely around the aura of the founder.

> call it End Of Life with flagrant issues still happening

It's precisely because there are unreasonable issues that they EOL them. Retiring products because of issues should be encouraged.

How? Well all products should be sold as a service - medical devices are, even if they appear as a purchase, they have strong post-market surveillance requirements. But that makes everything super expensive. It's only affordable for rich economies like Singapore.