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

[David Froble]

Simon Clubley wrote:
> 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.

If it has such now, then it had such from day one.  Whether you know 
about it is not relavent.

> 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 ?

That has nothing to do with the statement.  I never said requirements 
don't change.