Libertarian Spring<p>It is so obvious that the forced stoppage of support for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Windows" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Windows</span></a> 7, 8.1 and 10 has everything to do with forcing people to buy new hardware, and nothing with the technical possibilities of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Microsoft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Microsoft</span></a> to produce a good working operating system that works on a wide scale of different performing hardware. </p><p>I have a still well functioning laptop that will soon have an OS that is not supported anymore. This is truly ridiculous and renders good functioning laptop useless. Yes I know I can put <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a> on it, and I will. But it is for work-purposes a step back as the stability and availability of software is different. </p><p>It has all the vibes of cartelisation, central software/OS-producers with hardware industry, pushing people to buy new hardware.</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Capitalism</span></a> destroys the environment and forces us to use the resources of our <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/planet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>planet</span></a> in an inefficient and destructive manner. We need a fundamentally different economy and tech-sector. Here is a draft for a couple of pillars of such a tech-sector: <a href="https://kolektiva.social/@LibSpring/114002923715678754" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">kolektiva.social/@LibSpring/11</span><span class="invisible">4002923715678754</span></a></p>