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Re: End-of-life dates

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Post by dbbk »

avnigo wrote: post #21

Meta: perhaps hyphenating 'end-of-life' or including 'EOL' in the title might make it clearer to the reader on what this is about. I don't know if it was just me trying to figure out what those 'life dates' were from the title.

I thought it was dating for people who were terminally ill...

Re: End-of-life dates

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Post by guessmyname »

jonhohle wrote: post #3

I’m not sure what I’m supposed to see, but all there is is a pitch for an end of life app and a link to GitHub and other supporting sites that talk about a project vaguely but don’t provide any content or examples. Is there an issue with a data store or does the site not work in Safari (iOS)?

Here are some examples:

- https://endoflife.date/go

- https://endoflife.date/php

- https://endoflife.date/nodejs

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Post by ianai »

MonkeyIsNull wrote: post #33
foo_barrio wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Interesting that you read it as "end of life-dates". I read it as "end-of-life dates" and thinking it was about very old people or terminally ill people dating each other and supporting themselves up through the end.

Exactly what I thought it was as well.

“Support cycles” or something would be more self explanatory.

Re: End-of-life dates

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Post by fsflover »

londons_explore wrote: post #7

The bricks my house is made of are now 119 years old. They haven't received any updates or substantial maintenance. The guy who made them is dead. His company is gone. Yet they are still functional and secure. They still work with the latest screws. If I had to switch out my bricks every 5 years, I don't think I'd have any time or money left for the rest of life. Can we make software that's a little more like my bric…

Perhaps if you follow Unix philosophy, you can write such software.

Re: End-of-life dates

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Post by dang »

avnigo wrote: post #21

Meta: perhaps hyphenating 'end-of-life' or including 'EOL' in the title might make it clearer to the reader on what this is about. I don't know if it was just me trying to figure out what those 'life dates' were from the title.

Hyphenated above. Thanks!

Re: End-of-life dates

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Post by coruja »

londons_explore wrote: post #7

The bricks my house is made of are now 119 years old. They haven't received any updates or substantial maintenance. The guy who made them is dead. His company is gone. Yet they are still functional and secure. They still work with the latest screws. If I had to switch out my bricks every 5 years, I don't think I'd have any time or money left for the rest of life. Can we make software that's a little more like my bric…

A little more related in my opinion is enterprise hardware. I recently started a new career managing software and hardware acquisitions, including their maintenance, for a very large organization. When OEM support and maintenance is required by policy, the EOL renders that associated hardware useless unless you're willing to maintain 3rd party maintenance. Which, from my understanding, even patches for vulns such as the recent log4 vuln would not be covered. One could argue that this limitation is created by such organizational policies, I guess, but it makes the whole industry look more like a leasing structure with purchase prices to me.
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