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Thus a neat effect of such a law would be that SOC manufacturers would not purposefully break compatibility as much as they do now. Sounds like a win-win to me
by enriquto 5y ago
Thus a neat effect of such a law would be that SOC manufacturers would not purposefully break compatibility as much as they do now. Sounds like a win-win to me!
- JoshTriplett 5y agoOr, much more likely, they'll continue building new hardware as they do now, and let the length of software support for old hardware in one particular market be a software problem for the vendors selling into that market. Don't assume that attempting to solve a problem with a law can only have one possible outcome, and can't possibly have a different outcome instead.