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> Because some of these apps are artistic works, and making artistic works effectively unusable arbitrarily is unconscionable. I have an apps on there in the a
by 0x20cowboy 4y ago
> Because some of these apps are artistic works, and making artistic works effectively unusable arbitrarily is unconscionable.
I have an apps on there in the art context. I think with software as your medium, if you want your art to live on, you need to keep it updated. Doom is constantly being updated to run on new systems, and valve still updates old games (for example).
Bit rot is something you need to battle with in work production systems too. Even if you wrote something in assembly, you’d eventually have to update it.
It’s the nature of software. Am I misunderstanding what you think should be happening?
- bcrl 4y agoIt's the nature of developers that don't value other developers' time and effort. Somehow the Linux kernel manages not to break userspace every release.
- leereeves 4y agoI recently downloaded the old Gold Box games on Steam. They're about 30 years old and still work fine, thanks to a bit of effort from the DOSbox developers. Apple could also make their platform backwards compatible.
- ryandrake 4y agoBits don't rot. If a software that worked fine when it was released no longer works on the latest version of the platform, it is entirely the fault of the platform developer who failed to maintain backward compatibility. It is the consequence of deliberate platform choices and we should not try to shift the blame onto individual 3rd party developers or conjure up mystical forces like "bit rot".