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by metricodus 3362 days ago
The EU loves creating standardized sticker layouts. In this case I would welcome it.

"Security updates guaranteed for: nn months"

or

"Security updates guaranteed until: YYYY/MM"

There should be a also scheme where companies who claim these things would have to deposit some calculated amount in some offical place.

(Btw, since so there's so much cheap crap being imported from china, I guess the most consumer-protecting approach would be to make both the reseller and producer responsible for the penalties resulting from a lack of security updates.)
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Zenst 3362 days ago
Not sure about the EU, but the UK has this covered under the Sales of Goods Act: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sale_of_Goods_Act_1979
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metricodus 3362 days ago
Has that 1979 law been proven in court to be valid about the kind of things we are talking about now, and can you link the specific cases, please? :=)
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Zenst 3362 days ago
Do you have a resource in which can look up past cases, including small claims court that is not paywalled in some form?

Asking as I'm aware of a couple of cases with friends in the past few years. Personally had one case in which was about to go to SCC regarding software update removing some functionality and the company settled out of court and left me most happy with the settlement.

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kuschku 3362 days ago
Use dejure.org for German cases and law.
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Zenst 3362 days ago
Bookmarked, alas for the UK the only public offerings are pay per search: https://www.trustonline.org.uk/ which does not seem to have Small Claims Court judgments.

Also http://law.stackexchange.com/questions/940/is-there-a-prefer... kinda back's this up alas.

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metricodus 3362 days ago
I think the onus is on you.
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Zenst 3362 days ago
That is why I asked as I'm not aware of any non-paywall sites that allow such lookups and neither it seems are you.

Maybe somebody else knows one, but as I stated, I have personally used this law in comparable circumstances and aware others have. But without the ability to lookup such cases on a non-paywall site then alas we have hit an enpass.

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jacquesm 3362 days ago
What he means is that if you are going around claiming all kinds of things then you should be the one to provide the evidence to go with the claims.
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