In many industrial and retail use cases, 10 years is the low end. 3-5 years is an accounting timeline (for depreciation) not necessarily the useful life of the asset. If the asset can be used after it’s done depreciating that is a bonus for the company using it. Thanks, > On Apr 14, 2022, at 7:24 AM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson <johannbg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 14.4.2022 11:42, Kevin Kofler via devel wrote: >> Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: >> >>> For example EU has regulation that requires vendors to have spare parts >>> available for 7–10 years after date of manufacturing so it makes sense >>> for the project to support hw no longer than a decade from the date of >>> it's manufacturing. ( which makes the oldest hw being support being >>> manufactured in 2012 ) and every process,workflows and decision being >>> bound by that. >> Lack of availability of original spare parts does not mean that the hardware >> suddenly magically stops working for everybody. >> > No but it does mean that they cant run indefinitely > > And there needs to be a number on this to adjust users expectation and 10 years is a reasonable number from a business, parts and recycle/re-use availability, > > What is unreasonable is to be expecting that it's supported indefinitely from OS and or HW vendors. > > JBG > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
