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I agree in principle however I have knowledge of software installed on computers in warehouses that haven’t been touched in 15+ years and get daily industrial u
by N_A_T_E 4y ago
I agree in principle however I have knowledge of software installed on computers in warehouses that haven’t been touched in 15+ years and get daily industrial use. Yes these machines are not internet connected and run ancient operating systems. Obviously web based applications have a comparatively massive maintenance burden however not all software uses that model.
- yencabulator 4y agoThat sounds more like technical debt without a payment plan. Imagine that all of those physical machines stop working tomorrow -- let's call it the fictitious but notorious y2.023k bug. Imagine the software won't install or run on the a current day computer+operating system. Imagine you cannot install the old version of the operating system on new hardware (missing drivers / the operating system vendor pulls an Apple and explicitly prevents that / it's against the ToS and you'll get sued / your license has expired / etc). Now what?