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The Way of Maintenance
When TPM beats replacement; the discipline of the operator.
- 動 The 12-month window when TPM libraries can't fix their own records 5 min · published 2026-07-06 When two large third-party-maintenance databases consolidate — merger, acquisition, portfolio rollup — their public EOSL libraries usually go stale for a year or more while the URL structure gets rebuilt. Buyers who rely on those libraries during the window see out-of-date dates, dead links, and empty rows. Here is how consolidations happen, why fresh-content dates are the signal to watch, and how to hedge.
- 空 Why TPM libraries show "Date Not Published" — and how to read past it 6 min · published 2026-07-06 Open any major third-party-maintenance library and you'll hit rows that just say "Date Not Published" or a bare dash where the EOSL date should be. The reason isn't laziness; it's the shape of the vendor-disclosure market. Here is what that empty cell actually means, how to triangulate the answer yourself, and why Bushido shows a confidence-scored estimate instead.
- 審 How to vet a third-party maintenance provider without getting burned 6 min · published 2026-07-06 A buyer's checklist. Six honesty markers that separate a real TPM shop from a fresh-domain lead generator. Bushido doesn't sell contracts, so we have no dog in the fight — but we've watched enough procurement cycles to know exactly where the surface cracks first.
- 道 The case for keeping it 5 min · published 2026-05-31 Sometimes the right answer is to maintain. A discipline for recognizing when replacement is the lazy choice, not the wise one.