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VFP has a new companion on the scrap heap
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12/03/2014 15:40:49
John Ryan
Captain-Cooker Appreciation Society
Taumata Whakatangi ..., New Zealand
 
 
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>>What people forget is that it costs money to keep providing updates for an old OS, and that improvements in later OSes make them safer to use in the first place.

True. And software doesn't "wear out" like a hard drive or flat-bed truck, so if it makes business sense to keep using it- people can. Just as your husband did. What happens though is that hardware and consumables need replacement and one day there's no driver available for the old OS, just as the manufacturer no longer offers K2C buffer seals for a '57 Chevvy. Maybe if new software drivers had a price tag, it would be different but people expect drivers for free and therefore need to expect to update their OS to get new drivers. It's true of Linux as well- older versions of Centos struggle with large WD disks and newer motherboards, because it's not viable to update obsolete stuff forever for free.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us.
"
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
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