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> There should be an effort to offer 50 years of security updates for Debian 12. That would create more value for real businesses than... Real businesses seem

> There should be an effort to offer 50 years of security updates for Debian 12. That would create more value for real businesses than... Real businesses seem to prefer to spend time dealing with breakages than money to avoid them. It's not economically optimal. Some buy their OS from IBM instead with mixed results but generally more focus on doing things businesses seem to want.

pmontra 3y ago
We know that something is going to break anyway because the world changes and it's impossible to cope with future unknown changes. So it's worth having some robustness but too much of it is not robustness anymore, it's money spent on wishful thinking.