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Re:Our Recurring Payment Pricing Was Rejected by beat on Monday May 27, 2013 @11:11AM (#5774895)
Software does indeed degrade over time - platform support (gee, do your Windows 3.1 apps run?), security flaws, etc.
Re:Our Recurring Payment Pricing Was Rejected by mikeash on Monday May 27, 2013 @01:59PM (#5775746)
It's true for software that's completely standalone, a virtual island. But very little useful software qualifies. Most software interacts with other components, whether hardware, operating systems, external formats, etc., and when those change over time, the software effectively becomes worse, even though it's technically the same as it was before.