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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This comment is based on the assumption that the company manufacturing the lab equipment is enjoying unreasonable profits, which is not necessarily the case.

You can't force companies to support software. They will just attach an impractical though reasonable price tag to continued support. "Sure we can support that microscope, it will cost you 2x the price of our new model".

This would force companies to continuously improve

On the contrary, there's no money to invest in development of newer models if no one will buy them.