Should OS makers, like Microsoft, be legally required to provide 15 years of security updates?

  • pathos@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    What we REALLY need is to curb microsoft’s market dominance. If more alternatives for OS and usable replacements for MS office em would exist, this would not be a problem and would not need to hamper innovation for the sake of back porting (the main counter-argument as a dev).

    • elucubra@sopuli.xyz
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      4 hours ago

      Linux and all its flavors?

      What’s wrong with libreoffice or anyoffice? For a large percentage of users, Linux is fine, especially as many applications have an online option. For the stuff I do, in Linux, online Office is more than sufficient.

      An org I work with provides me with a 365 license, but I I’m more comfortable in Libreoffice.

      Office is used bythe majority, but majority doesn’t mean they are right, they are simply more.