> Software that is not actively maintained (which is expensive) eventually stops working. That's only true in the context of the environment the software is in

> Software that is not actively maintained (which is expensive) eventually stops working. That's only true in the context of the environment the software is in. The environment is very hostile to supporting old versions of software. We keep pushing out operating system updates and updates on linked libraries and so on, mostly in the name of security and feature creep.. and software that worked perfectly fine at one point are gradually murdered. It's kind of a tragedy.