"E.S. Rosenberg" <[email protected]> writes: > On 1/6/2014 2:26 AM, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: >> >> Sounds a bit harsh. A device cannot possibly become less useful with >> time than it was when you bought it (barring a HW malfunction). If it >> did then what it says on the tin it will still do it now, won't it? >> Without any new software...
> If you're willing to use a device with outdated software containing > known dangerous vulnerabilities, it almost like running an unpatched > version of Windows then what you say is correct. We are not discussing past-EOL versions here, so the implicit assumption is that critical security updates are provided, without downgrading functionality. -- Oleg Goldshmidt | [email protected] _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
