[Info-vax] [OT] Software wears out, was: Re: VMS Software Inc. OpenVMS 8.4-1H1 Boots on i4 System

[Simon Clubley]

On 2015-03-20, David Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
> Richard Maher wrote:
>> On 3/20/2015 12:31 PM, David Froble wrote:
>>>
>>> Software doesn't wear out.
>>>
>> 
>> Bit-Rot is very much a reality :-(
>> 
>
> Perhaps an example of such?
>
> I have yet to see any software that after some time doesn't do what it 
> had previously done.

The example I keep throwing at you when you say that is to think of
the additional functionality you didn't know the software had and
which was just recently discovered.

IOW, what about the unknown vulnerabilities in the software ?

If you only have binary images which are no longer supported, then how
do you get the vulnerability fixed so you can resume normal production
operations ?

Simon.

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