WannaCry [OT]

[Bob Sneidar]

Agreed Richard. And yet, here we are. My Dad for years had to run an old Windows 98 box because he had purchased devices and DOS applications for integrating with his radio system which would only talk directly to the device, and would not access a Windows driver to do it. We pay our money and we take our chance. 

Bob S


> On May 15, 2017, at 09:28 , Richard Gaskin via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
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> All systems eventually reach end-of-life.  If a vendor has enough technical expertise to deliver hardware worth $750k, it seems reasonable to expect that expertise would include sufficient familiarity with system life cycles to anticipate a need for modular upgrades.
> 
> -- 
> Richard Gaskin