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A <$100 purchase does not buy an active staff of highly paid developers for multiple decades -- that some people feel otherwise is what's mind-boggling to me. N
by dangrossman 13y ago
A <$100 purchase does not buy an active staff of highly paid developers for multiple decades -- that some people feel otherwise is what's mind-boggling to me. Nothing else I've ever purchased came with a 13 year warranty in the first place. When you talk about never buying a Microsoft product again if they don't service your purchase indefinitely, I really doubt you're applying that same standard to any other company. There's nobody at any company pushing out new versions of firmware for 13 year old wifi routers, new drivers for 13 year old mice, 13 year old printers, 13 year old game consoles...
- mercurial 13y agoThat's a very good point. As unhappy as I am with Microsoft's practices, they're doing an excellent job when it comes to backward compatibility and supporting legacy versions. You can't reasonably expect them to produce patches for Windows XP for 20 years.
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