Yes, he'll be deprived of the support he knew he wouldn't get when he purchased the software and accepted the terms. Nobody forced him to buy it, and even after that he had a chance to return it to the retailed if he didn't accept the terms.

You're saying that is I install an OS I purchased 10 years ago, it will not be the same quality as it was 10 years ago?
Sure, it doesn't have the same features as modern OSs, but it's 100% IDENTICAL to an installation made 10 years ago. There is no difference at all.

Also, I'm pretty sure that most users that disable JS, and are willing to deal with a lack of JS on most sites, can easily find about the same option in about:config (or noscript).

Maybe it's time screen readers caught up.
If lots of text was added to a page, why can't it be read? The screen reader should deal with the browser's DOM, not the HTML.

Sure, there's plenty of sites that do stupid things (like creating a canvas with vectors to render pretty fonts), but let's not shift all the blame to JS devs/apps, screen readers need to stay current as well.

It's sensless to compare software and cars age-wise.

Cars get degraded as the years pass. Software is identical, it's not worn of or anything like that.
If you assume that cars have no sort of degradatino with time just like cars, then the manufacturing date is irrelevant, since all that share the same design are identical.

I live in Argentina, and the AFIP (our version of the IRS) has lots of web systems that only run on IE6. YES, IE6 is they only browser they officially support.
Hence, anyone that's self-empoyed and need to constaltly be doing taxes has an XP VM somewhere around.
This includes any freelance developer, quite a nerd, IMO.

And I'm pretty sure plenty of other non-firstworld countries have similar issues.

No, XP is still 12 years old. Vista's existance just means that XP was superceded 6 years ago, and has been deprecated since. The age of ANYTHING is how long ago it was concieved.

So FreeDOS is a new OS?
XP is about a few minutes old (I still see it sold - distributed - in plenty of places nowadays).

You make it sound like getting supported hardware was a hard thing.
My mum bought her computer about 5 years algo, and XP x64 worked fine without any issues. We never consulted if it would work or not - you could just assume it would, much like XP would run on almost any machine you could build at the time.

Honestly, users who are still using windows XP [quite clearly] don't care about getting software updates, why would they care?

Even thought this sounds like flaimbait/troll, I'm being pretty much sincere. Someone who's using an unsupported, 12 year-old OS doesn't seem to be the type of person constantly updating their driver anyway.

If you read the ISO spec, you'd realize it's not really open (it makes references to MSO's former binary format, which isn't open).

Also, MS's implementation diverges from the ISO specs (not sure about 2013, though. I didn't even know 2013 was out).

Uhm...

If they patent it, all the others ISPs won't be using this sort of tech to annoy it's users.

Having played online games, I'm pretty sure millons need to be arrested for potential rapists, since I've heard lots of insults regarding fucking people's mums!

Sure, 5KiB (NOT mb) can contain all sorts of code. But it's not an issue it there's no way to execute that.
Just like these code:

sudo rm -rf /

or:

dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/sda

Both are now store in your browser cache. :)

I'd rather wall off parts of the web that don't care about what consumer want, than taint standards (and software) we use every day with DRM.