On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 10:33 AM, Jim Lux <[email protected]> wrote:
> Most national labs are more like time-nuts hobbyists for many of the same > reasons. > > A big business (think cellphone provider) depreciates and amortizes their > gear, so they cycle through in 3-5 years, and *build the update process > into the budget*. They also buy in large quantities. > I was overly brief. A good example would Windows XP. Support from Microsoft stopped in April or whenever. Except for the people with contracts that said it didn't. And some part of my brain knows that time distribution from NIST (I think NIST not the Navy) is contracted out which presumably pushes all the maintenance problems onto the contractor. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
