EOL should be made to legally mean: opensource or something equivalent.
If Windows isn't supported on my laptop, I can nearly always replace it with Linux and still keep it alive.
With stuff like this, they can decide to never update it again or just turn off some critical service and render a device unusable. It's not just a thing about owning what you purchase and having the freedom to do what you want with it, it's also about the environment. Forcing things to become dangerous for use or just having the power to kill it remotely out of business interests means more electronic trash.
https://publiccode.eu/ goes in the right direction on a similar topic, but this should also start getting a bit of the limelight.
If Windows isn't supported on my laptop, I can nearly always replace it with Linux and still keep it alive. With stuff like this, they can decide to never update it again or just turn off some critical service and render a device unusable. It's not just a thing about owning what you purchase and having the freedom to do what you want with it, it's also about the environment. Forcing things to become dangerous for use or just having the power to kill it remotely out of business interests means more electronic trash.
https://publiccode.eu/ goes in the right direction on a similar topic, but this should also start getting a bit of the limelight.