> software is not like other machines. Most machines, in time, rot and decay. But software is just information: if it’s correct, it stays that way. Hardware doe

> software is not like other machines. Most machines, in time, rot and decay. But software is just information: if it’s correct, it stays that way. Hardware does need replacement, but the correct software that runs on it keeps running. Unless you have some empowered person or group in your organization, levels above your team, that is allowed to constantly move the goalposts because of “cybersecurity!!1” and even the most mundane internal-only systems have the be kept to the latest versions of everything ever just so their scanning software shows “green”. Probably because their own OKRs are based on how many green circles they keep or something. They’re cyberaccountants.