> Software has a significant advantage over things that have to be made in the real world: it doesn't degrade over time. That's the conventional wisdom, but ac

> Software has a significant advantage over things that have to be made in the real world: it doesn't degrade over time. That's the conventional wisdom, but actually it's wrong in every possible sense. Software is an inseparable part of its ecosystem, and the ecosystem is always evolving. Decay is not a property of the physical world. It's a property of complex systems in general, be it natural or artificial. > Software doesn't become a liability that should be removed simply by being old. > Adobe's library of code for handing Type 1 fonts should have reached this "finished" state a long time ago. The maintenance cost of the Type 1 font feature should have been very close to zero. By your own logic, you can just stick to using old Adobe software. Problem solved. And you're wrong about Type 1 support being "finished". Given Type 1 isn't supported by any recent OS (and never was on mobile OS), it basically is a feature on its own, that has to be extended and maintained every time the software wants to make use of a new OS level font support feature, because both need to have parity. Adobe stopped supporting it because the de-facto standard today is OpenType. Adobe doesn't want to "push" anyone to OpenType. It has no financial incentive to. So you basically spun a conspiracy theory that is wrong in all possible ways at once.