@phnt

> The amount of people that will do so will be so small that the number of them will be irrelevant.

Most of the people that are moving to Canada have no follow-through, sure.

> And the longer the "out of date" period is, the harder it will be to maintain the patch sets

I think they call it a fork. But a big facet of security is killing things that you don't need. I'm still not certain whether you're talking about workstations or servers or what. FreeDOS started because there still existed DOS applications that people used, and there is still plenty of Linux 2.6 in the wild.