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SubjectRe: Old platforms: bring out your dead
On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 4:47 PM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
<glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> On 1/11/21 4:04 PM, Gerhard Pircher wrote:

> There has to be a healthy balance between hobbyist and commercial use. I understand
> that from a commercial point of view, it doesn't make much sense to run Linux
> on a 30-year-old computer.

I have another impression (depending on what you put under "commercial use").
Industrial requirements are to support for 15+ (in some cases 30+)
years for hardware. I'm quite sure they don't want to have completely
outdated software there either.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko

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