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Microsoft tells Windows 10 users to just trade in their PC for a newer one, because how hard can it be?
(www.xda-developers.com)
this post was submitted on 21 Mar 2025
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If there's no IP barrier, the products can come back when the demand is back.
Which is one of the reasons I'm against copyright and of course reverse-engineering and modding and emulation being legally suppressed.
Say, one can easily understand how 90s' era of good old software and hardware ended. Modern business models there are more profitable. But those models lead to degeneracy, and they wouldn't be competitive if the old things were competitive for longer, and the old things would be if not for copyright. More paths is always better.