Comment by Hackbraten

Comment by Hackbraten 2 days ago

4 replies

I think this contest is a good thing.

It might put pressure on customers to demand products with longer support lifecycles, which in turn forces vendors to offer longer support and/or make their software and APIs open source once support ends.

wpm 2 days ago

>It might put pressure on customers to demand products with longer support lifecycles

It won't. It'll allow vendors to put pressure on customers to buy new shit to replace their old shit that still works just fine that the vendor would rather not spend the resources patching.

  • teeray 2 days ago

    It puts pressure on regulators to realize the shitty situation MBAs create when they EOL products that aren’t reaching revenue targets.

  • throwaway48476 2 days ago

    Possibly but a website that says 'vendor vulnerable' is bad PR and readers won't care if it's EOL or not.