alt Hacker NewsWhere do people get ideas like this? In what world does this make sense?
You have several choices:
1. Work with a supplier and sign a contract guaranteeing support for whatever period of time you want at a mutually agreeable price
2. Host your own stack to depend on and support it for however long you want
3. Accept that you're paying for a service and that it can go away at any time.
Companies aren't obligated to support things forever and they aren't obligated to open them up when they no longer feel it's worth supporting them. Claiming they should is absurd.
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I mean, claiming the have a moral imperative to do it might be a bit of a stretch, but it sure would be nice - can’t blame people for wanting things.
It's not a legal obligation, no, but neither should you as a customer accept a vendor that treats you like that.
>they aren't obligated to open them up when they no longer feel it's worth supporting them.
Creating a legal obligation to release the weights of discontinued models doesn’t seem absurd. These models are built on existing publicly available information; a requirement that it be returned to the commons once it is no longer in commercial use hardly seems like a substantial regulatory burden.