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as hard as they want.[^3] There are no longer consequences for enacting planned
obsolescence to the extreme.

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Requiring critical systems to be open source means that if those systems are abandoned,
the people that use them can step in to maintain them, preventing otherwise
inevitable disruption of important infrastructure. It provides more reliable infrastructure
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Abandonware is not just a business problem. More and more people are receiving
cutting-edge medical technology.
Bionic eyes enable blinded people to see again, pacemakers keep people's hearts
pumping, and brain implants vastly improve quality of life for epileptic
patients.
All of that can, at present, lose support completely at the whim of a
corporation, or when it becomes insolvent.
In fact, [this has already happened]
(https://futurism.com/neoscope/brain-implant-removed-consent) to the
aforementioned epileptic patient.

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