Re: RE: Do we need Windows patch legislation?
At my last employer, they were still issuing servers to customers in 2015 with SUSE from 2000, because the libraries they used weren't compatible with newer versions and the company that had written the libraries had gone out of business...
But "it is Linux, so we don't need to worry about security updates," was the excuse for not finding a newer library or re-writing the software for a more modern version of Linux.
In fact, they did have to switch, because the Linux would no longer install on the current generation "low end" (i.e. Intel Pentium) servers. But security wasn't the driver.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
