Sure, you can maintain it if you want. And they ought to give you the means to. But that’s a bad comparison.
I bought a perfect, will never deteriorate houseboat twenty years ago (it is now 2043) and moved it across the world. But now in the harbor of Hong Kong I won’t get a permit to stay there because there is (1) no onboard emergency manual in either Cantonese or Mandarin, and (2) it is not up to code for sustained quarantine due to the novel airborne virus that became a pandemic some years ago, and (3) there is no mounted non-lethal (because animal welfare) protection against a hull-eating[1] marina pest that migrated from the Equator ten years ago because of climate change.
Software obsolescence is all about the world changing around the software.
[1] The boat might be perfect but apparently creatures can still eat it if determined enough.
Love the hull eating creatures that must only be humanely killed.
Yeah, things never stand still. And those best equipt and informed to
make changes for changing times are end-users in whatever context they
find themselves, post-apocalypse or otherwise :)
I bought a perfect, will never deteriorate houseboat twenty years ago (it is now 2043) and moved it across the world. But now in the harbor of Hong Kong I won’t get a permit to stay there because there is (1) no onboard emergency manual in either Cantonese or Mandarin, and (2) it is not up to code for sustained quarantine due to the novel airborne virus that became a pandemic some years ago, and (3) there is no mounted non-lethal (because animal welfare) protection against a hull-eating[1] marina pest that migrated from the Equator ten years ago because of climate change.
Software obsolescence is all about the world changing around the software.
[1] The boat might be perfect but apparently creatures can still eat it if determined enough.