Re: Hard-/Software expiration date
> Hardware and software have a very short lifecycle
Of course you're not supposed to ask the embarrassing question - Why?
It's presented here as an obvious and indisputable truth, but if you think about it there is actually no rational reason: Hardware, no matter how cheap, will easily last a decade or two, and software will last as long as the support it is stored on. Ah yes, bugs. But they aren't supposed to be there, are they. Not the first day and even less several years later.
The only reason for the, attention, not just "short" but "very short" lifecycle is greed.