Microsoft's telemetry features in Windows 10 are a privacy advocate's nightmare. Now that Microsoft is trying to back port these "features" into existing versions of Windows, it seems like many of us have no future upgrade path. Sure there is Linux, but I have some older Windows software that I still want to use. ReactOS is still out there, but does not look like there have been any updates in a while.
Does the Soylent community believe it is possible to get this project going full steam to producing a useable alternative for existing Windows users?
(Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Thursday October 22 2015, @11:49AM
I certainly have been looking at alternatives. One of them is an industrial strength Arduino based PLC. I'm proficient with C and there are ladder to C compilers/IDE's for Arduino and other C applications. But how long will they be making these? Can I still buy a replacement CPU in 5/10/15/20 years? Doubtful. Companies like Automationdirect, Allen Bradley, and Siemens have been around for decades and aren't going anywhere.
At my other job, we have Automationdirect DL440 PLC's that were in stalled sometimes around 1995. I can still buy every part for them and AD told me they have no plans of cancelling the series yet. 20 years later and I can still get parts.