In many industrial and retail use cases, 10 years is the low end. 3-5 years is 
an accounting timeline (for depreciation) not necessarily the useful life of 
the asset. If the asset can be used after it’s done depreciating that is a 
bonus for the company using it.

Thanks,

> On Apr 14, 2022, at 7:24 AM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson <johan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On 14.4.2022 11:42, Kevin Kofler via devel wrote:
>> Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote:
>> 
>>> For example EU has regulation that requires vendors to have spare parts
>>> available for 7–10 years after date of manufacturing so it makes sense
>>> for the project to support hw no longer than a decade from the date of
>>> it's manufacturing. ( which makes the oldest hw being support being
>>> manufactured in 2012 ) and every process,workflows and decision being
>>> bound by that.
>> Lack of availability of original spare parts does not mean that the hardware
>> suddenly magically stops working for everybody.
>> 
> No but it does mean that they cant run indefinitely
> 
> And there needs to be a number on this to adjust users expectation and 10 
> years is a reasonable number from a business, parts and recycle/re-use 
> availability,
> 
> What is unreasonable is to be expecting that it's supported indefinitely from 
> OS and or HW vendors.
> 
> JBG
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