Companies Might Soon Have to Tell You When Their Products Will Die
Companies Might Soon Have to Tell You When Their Products Will Die
If everything’s computer, it would be nice to know how long computer last.
Not on this political climate.
Came here to say something like this. Its clear that we will not get anything that benefits the real citizens.
I've learned from my mistakes with Google IoT. Unless I can host things myself, preferably even before the product inevitably dies, i'm not even considering it
How about getting forced to go open source when they abandon a product?
The problem is that many companies can't do that as they can't give you their custom server code. The only solution here would be to change design from the beginning so that devices can work without servers and are also so secure that they don't need security updates
That is the point: The pure threat of being forced to open that code could shift the business model to not have proprietary server / cloud code at all.
Too risky. Who knows what's hiding in their code. Might be some copylefted library or a piece of code that's been copy-pasted into the project without fully complying with the copyleft requirements. Making sure this isn't the case and/or cleaning up an abandoned project can be costly and complicated. Easier for them to just kill it.
No they dont, not with the current american administration.
Whoever pays the most money makes the rules. I mean, it was always like that but they don't have to hide it nearly as much.
They convinced a good chunk of the country that it’s a good thing.
Good thing the end of Windows support isn't the end of the story for PC at least.
Most IoT devices that died did so because the vendor went out of business and had to shut off the servers. Most lived in hope that a last minute investment would keep them afloat. In a few other cases, it was the middleware software provider (like Google IoT) that shut down and bricked a device.
This legislation might apply to a big company that decides to discontinue a product line and could then send notices out, but most startups won't know (or admit defeat) till the last possible moment. By then it's too late.