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Campaigners urge EU to mandate 15 years of OS updates (www.theregister.com)
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Should OS makers, like Microsoft, be legally required to provide 15 years of security updates?

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[–] Cricket@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 hours ago

would this not be a good idea for a start up company that recycle computer parts?

I really don't think so. Computer recycling already seems to be a low profit business, as evidenced by there not being any large companies that do it (that I'm aware of). This number of computers flooding the market would probably make it even less profitable. Sure, it may be profitable for some small businesses, but nothing on the scale required to address the problem.