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It makes me wish for legislation to force companies to either

1. Provide security LTS for critical software as-purchased. If you bought Win 7, you get it. No forced upgrades.

Or

2. Force release of source code if not providing LTS. You don't want to support it fine. But don't block people from what they bought.

Pipe dream and wildly expensive to corps but hey they don't give a shit about us anyway.

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> 2. Force release of source code if not providing LTS. You don't want to support it fine. But don't block people from what they bought.

Tangentially there is a movement happening in this regard for video games for studios to provide EOL options instead of bricking the game you bought. For software I haven't seen an example of local installations that get bricked after remote services go offline. Maybe for example if Jetbrains closed shop tomorrow and basically said to all users, your license wont be validated, too bad.

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