At 07:33 2013-05-02, Stephen Russell <[email protected]> wrote:
[snip]
Are you nuts? Would you decree that every product produced has to be
No.
updated or only ones you pick for a list? If you thought this was a good
No.
idea who would make the list? Dingbats in Washington?
I would expect companies to consider the impact on their customers.
No. Mind you, I am Canadian. No, to dingbats in Ottawa.
Do you think that prices would have to increase on just about everything if
the producer had to keep fixing it for free? Don't you see how this would
Sure. The maintenance does not have to be free.
close down industry and just keep a monopoly in power as the only one who
could do this?
Possibly. But I sure do not like the current churn of products.
Please let me out of your economy. I don't think I could afford it.
I understand your point, but there is another side.
My main system is still my XP box. Because Microsoft cut the
legs out from 16-bit, I still have not shifted over to Windows 7. If
Microsoft had continued supporting 16-bit program on 64-bit Windows,
I might well have switched, but since they make it difficult, I have not.
"Please let me out of your economy. I don't think I could
afford it." also applies to the treadmill of continuous changing. (I
will not dignify it with the word "upgrading".)
[snip]
Sincerely,
Gene Wirchenko
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