The article more or less revises its own headline, since in reality
"legacy" is hardly a term that can be applied to BIOS regardless of
what anybody claims. The whole discussion is premature. There are
manufacturers out there still shipping traditional technology with no
current plans to add UEFI. According to the anecdotal data, 40 percent
of serviceable, running systems would become e-waste if dependent on
Fedora. That level of impact is reckless vandalism.
A few months ago in the pandemic I passed a huge pile of PCs in a skip
outside a company. They looked like very modern machines in great
condition but were apparently "unable to run Windows any longer".
This culture of "not supporting" needs examining. It's a public
interest technology issue that applies to many areas. If thousands of
companies had their hardware rendered inoperable by malicious hackers
there would be uproar. But if technology companies do it to service
their own "convenience" some people applaud that as "progress".
The article more or less revises its own headline, since in reality "legacy" is hardly a term that can be applied to BIOS regardless of what anybody claims. The whole discussion is premature. There are manufacturers out there still shipping traditional technology with no current plans to add UEFI. According to the anecdotal data, 40 percent of serviceable, running systems would become e-waste if dependent on Fedora. That level of impact is reckless vandalism.
A few months ago in the pandemic I passed a huge pile of PCs in a skip outside a company. They looked like very modern machines in great condition but were apparently "unable to run Windows any longer". This culture of "not supporting" needs examining. It's a public interest technology issue that applies to many areas. If thousands of companies had their hardware rendered inoperable by malicious hackers there would be uproar. But if technology companies do it to service their own "convenience" some people applaud that as "progress".