Why does software need to be “maintained”? What about it needs to be maintained?

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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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People find bugs in software all the time, security exploits included. Just because the software has been running fine for 20 years, doesnt mean there are not issues that need fixed. Maybe there is a memory leak, text input field doesnt accept enough characters, maybe it needs a fix to work on a new machine, etc

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