This is totally me just being naive, I don’t work in the software realm but do have an interest possibly one day, but if we have stuff that’s been able to run (seemingly) successfully for years, or maybe even decade, what maintenance needs to even be done on old programs? Is this simply for people discovering security vulnerabilities and patching them? Is there more to it than that?
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Very short answer.
If nothing outside of the software ever changed, and things continue in the same conditions as it was tested, the software doesn’t need to change.
Things change outside of the software so the software has to change or it will fail at some point when the external changes impact it.
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