Comment by jonhohle
20 hours ago
Why sunset it, though? There’s still floppy, atapi, and zip support.
Every Apple device from the late 90s to 2012 had FireWire. Most Sony PCs from the late 90s to 2009. Google estimates that at over 100M systems with FireWire. There were 50M Zip drives, in comparison.
I know I should probably move on, but I have a lot of FireWire block devices and video equipment. The disk/disc drives can be moved to USB, but the video equipment cannot.
People moved from "good to have" to "better to throw it out because it's unmaintained so it's not secure".
And floppy support is needed for cloud-init, heh.
By "people" you mean the corporate interests.